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Kaleidoscope, Featuring Music by Dobrinka Tabakova and Karen Tanaka, Wins a Latin GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Album

Nov. 28, 2025

Pianist Isabel Dobarro's new recording, Kaleidoscope – Contemporary Piano Music by Female Composers from Around the World has won a Latin GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Album. The recording features works for solo piano, including Dobrinka Tabakova's Nocturne (2008) and Karen Tanaka'sWater Dance III: Very Lightly, Like a Harp (2008). Other composers whose works appear on the album include Gabriela Ortiz, Tania León, Caroline Shaw, Julia Wolfe, and others.

Sheet music for Nocturne and Water Dance is available to purchase from Project Schott New York (PSNY).


Dobrinka Tabakova's Nocturne performed by Isabel Dobarro


Isabel Dobarro performs Karen Tanaka's Water Dance: III. Very Lightly, Like a Harp

Spanish pianist Dr Isabel Dobarro has an active international performing career and has performed and lectured at some of the most renowned venues in the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the European Parliament, the National Auditorium in Madrid and the Palau de la Música Catalana, among many others. Her work as an advocate for female composers has been recognised with several awards, and she has been invited to speak at the Women Now Conference together with Her Majesty Queen Letizia of Spain and film producer Kathleen Kennedy. In 2016 together with mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna, Isabel Dobarro created the Women in Music Project, an initiative that promotes music composed by women from around the world.

To learn more about Dobrinka Tabakova and Karen Tanaka, visit schott-music.com.

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