Aleksandra Vrebalov

Aleksandra Vrebalov

Aleksandra Vrebalov (born September 22, 1970 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian composer based in New York City. She studied composition with Miroslav Statkic at Novi Sad University, then with Zoran Erić at Belgrade University, Elinor Armer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Ivana Loudova at the Prague Academy of Music. She obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan where she studied with Evan Chambers and Michael Daugherty.

Residences: Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Tanglewood, New York’s New Dramatists, MacDowell Colony, and American Opera Projects among others.Awards/fellowships: American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellowship, Meet the Composer, Highsmith Composition Competition, Vienna Modern Masters, Serbian Fond for an Open Society, ASCAP Awards, and Douglas Moore Fellowship.

Her early string quartet "Pannonia Boundless", evoking eastern European sonorities, has been recorded by the Kronos Quartet on their album "Kronos Caravan" (1999) and published by Boosey and Hawkes (2007).

In her more developed orchestral work "Orbits" (2002), Vrebalov uses overlapping densities of sonorities and rhythmic proportions such as the Fibonacci series to portray her idiosyncratic post-modern conception of musica universalis.

Her music for the ballet "The Widow's Broom" (2004) based on Chris Van Allsburg’s book has been performed on Halloween by the Festival Ballet Providence.

She has received commissions from Kronos Quartet, Carnegie Hall (co-commission), Barlow Endowment, Festival Ballet Providence, Merkin Concert Hall Zoom Series. Vrebalov is a co-founder of South Oxford Six, a composers collective in New York City.

External links

* [http://www.newsound.org.yu/27/texts/tatjonin27.html Article by Tatjana Marković]
* [http://www.festivalballet.com/main%20%20template/news_press_080304.html The Widow's Broom]
* [http://www.southoxfordsix.org South Oxford Six]
* [http://www.kronosquartet.org/records/indiv.php?id=111 Kronos Quartet]
* [http://www.dnevnik.co.yu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18324 Dnevnik Interview]


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