In 2008, Pierre Boulez conducted his work Aksaks, commissioned by the orchestra of the SWR of Baden Baden, at the Donaueschingen and Vienna Modern festivals. In October 2009, Péter Eötvös conducted the première of Mandala, commissioned by the National Orchestra of Spain, and in May 2010, Susanna Mälkki the Concerto para piano, commissioned by the Orchestra of the Community of Madrid. In 2006, at the Takefu Festival in Japan, the Arditti Quartet premièred his Tres movimientos para cuarteto de cuerda. Also worthy of mention are the Cuadernos para orquesta, with which he was awarded the Premio Internacional Rodolfo Halffter in 2004, and the series of concertos for instrumental ensembles: for violin (2002), for trumpet (2007) and the Concierto de cámara (2005). All three, along with the Estudios para piano (2008) performed by Dimitri Vassilakis, have been released on two CDs on the NEOS label. Moreover, Col Legno released in 2005 a CD dedicated to his music, “A Portrait”.

In his role as conductor, Fabián Panisello is, since its foundation, principal conductor of Plural Ensemble (Madrid), with whom he participates in the principal festivals of the world dedicated to contemporary music, such as Mannes y A Tempo in America and, in Europe, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Présences, Musica, Ars Musica, Ultraschall, Aspekte, Manca, Spaziomusica and Ensemble Europa WDR, as well as the Quincena Donostiarra and the Alicante Festival in Spain. He has directed orchestras and ensembles such as MusikFabrik of Cologne, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain of Lyon, Musiques Nouvelles of Brussels or the Israel Contemporary Players of Tel-Aviv. He has recorded numerous CDs (NEOS, Col Legno, Cypres, Verso, Instituto Cervantes) and has participated as co-conductor in two world premières of Karlheinz Stockhausen: Hoch-Zeiten and Mixtur-2003 with the WDR Orchestra of Cologne and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester of Berlin.

Fabián Panisello lives in Madrid, where he is Academic Director of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía and the Instituto Internacional de Música de Cámara.