Sabrina Fernandez

Born in Cannes, France to French and Filipino parents, 19 year-old Sabrina Fernandez began taking piano lessons at the age of 4. By the age of the 10, Sabrina had already made her solo debut recital in Delray Beach, FL performing a full program on “Historical Instruments” such as Bach on a two-keyboard manual Harpsichord, Mozart on a London-built 1810 FortePiano and Beethoven on an 1860 Broadwood grand piano.

She made her orchestral debut at the age of 11 performing the Haydn Piano Concerto in D major, No. 11 with the Pro Arte Chamber Ensemble during their “Young Artist” concert series. After the success of her orchestral debut, she was invited back to perform the Mozart Piano Concerto in A major, K. 488 with the orchestra the year after.

Other notable performances with orchestras soon followed, including the, the Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra (Florida), the Florida Youth Orchestra, the Interlochen Philharmonic (Michigan), and the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida.

A former student of the Music Preparatory at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University in Boca Raton Florida, Sabrina has been studying under the guidance of Mr. Phillip Evans (former piano professor at both Julliard and Manhattan Schools of Music) from Boynton Beach for the past 8 years. In summer of 2006, she participated in master classes and performed the Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor in recitals held at the Nice Music Academy in Nice, France.

Among the most notable awards Sabrina has earned, they include the 2006 New World Symphony Concerto Winner, 2005 Interlochen Center of the Arts Concerto winner, 2005 Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra Concerto winner, 2004 Starz of the Future’s Instrumentalist winner, 2nd place at 2005 Robert Strassburg Piano Concerto competition and at Lynn University’s Young Artist Concerto competition in 2004, the 2002 Florida State Music Teacher’s Association Piano Concerto winner and most recently runner-up at the 2006 Blüthner Junior Piano competition.

Sabrina has appeared in various newspaper articles, including the Sun-Sentinel’s Boca Raton Times as well as French-language publications such as Le Soleil and France-Amerique. She has also been interviewed and performed Live on “Classical Variations” presented by Florida’s NPR radio station WXEL, and appeared in the Palm Beach-based, Gold Coast magazine.

Fluent in French, English and Tagalog, Sabrina formerly taught her own class of private piano students. An avid fan of figure skating, her hobbies include writing screenplays and in her journals as well as sketching fashion designs.