Fabián Panisello (Argentina/Spain) excels as a composer, conductor, and educator at the highest level. He served as Academic Director and Dean of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía from 1996 to 2019, where he remains a professor of composition. He also teaches as a guest professor at prestigious institutions such as the Royal Academy of Music, Eötvös Foundation, Jerusalem Academy, and China Conservatory.

Trained in composition with F. Kröpfl in Buenos Aires and B. Schaeffer at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and in conducting with P. Eötvös, his music—described by Stockhausen as “full of ideas, intense, and bursting with energy”—is noted for its dynamic drive, lyricism, dramatic power, harmonic refinement, and expressiveness. His works are performed by ensembles like the Arditti Quartet and Ensemble Modern, and orchestras including the OCNE, BBC, DSO, SWR, RTVE, and Tonkünstler. In recent years, he has focused on opera, with works like *Le Malentendu* and *Les Rois Mages* staged in Vienna, Nice, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, and Madrid, and *Die Judith von Shimoda*, commissioned by the Bregenz Festival, nominated for Best World Premiere 2024 by the Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis. In 2025, he is composer-in-residence at the Grafenegg Festival.

Recent premieres include Horn Concerto (Vlatković, Nielsen, RTVE), Seven Japanese Sketches (Ortega, Amaryllis Quartett), L’âge de la raison (Corrado, Syntax Ensemble, Milan), and Written in Blue (Blanco, Nagy, Sinfonietta ESMRS).