Her music has been performed throughout the United States and internationally (Turkey, Switzerland, and France) by the Berkeley Symphony under Kent Nagano, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Azure Ensemble, Classical Revolution, Contemporaneous, members of Eighth Blackbird, Ensemble 39, Monadnock Music, and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra.

Gabriella has received commissions from Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble for their 9th Annual Young Composers Concert, the Rock School of Ballet at Temple University in Philadelphia, Monadnock Music in collaboration with poet Marcia Falk of the MacDowell Colony, and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra through their Youth-for-Youth Commissioning Project.  Most recently she has been selected to write a piece for the 2012 One Book One Philadelphia project to be premiered in March 2012.

She has participated in many summer music festivals, including the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France, where she studied with Allain Gaussin and Francois Paris; Music11 in Blonay, Switzerland with ensemble-in-residence Eighth Blackbird; Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont; Aspen Music Festival and School where she studied with George Tsontakis; Monadnock Music in Peterborough, New Hampshire; and the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program in Putney, Vermont, where she studied with composer Stephen Coxe and guest composers Christopher Theofanidis, Melinda Wagner, and Steven Mackey.

Gabriella was named a winner in the 2009 ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Competition and received the First Place Prize in the 2009 Pacific Musical Society Composition Competition.

Before beginning her studies at Curtis in Fall 2009, Gabriella studied composition with pianist/composer Arkadi Serper of the Crowden School in Berkeley, California, with whom she also studied piano.  She also studied with composer Yiorgos Vassiladonakis of the University of California Berkeley and has had several lessons with John Adams.

Gabriella has also been an active violinist.  She played in the Superdelegates (an improv avant-garde classical/blues string quartet), the Formerly Known as Classical new music ensemble, and the Young Peoples Symphony Orchestra.  She also enjoys jamming regularly with her friends. When she is not making music, she enjoys backpacking, birding, volunteering as a bird bander and nest searcher at the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, scuba diving in the beautiful kelp forests of the Channel Islands, Scottish dancing, and studying science, math, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.