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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Aleksandra Vrebalov, composer
Aleksandra Vrebalov completed her Master degree at the San Francisco Conservatory and received her doctorate at the University of Michigan. She moved to NYC in 2002. Vrebalov's work was performed by Kronos Quartet, Belgrade Philharmonic, Moravian Philharmonic, Sausalito Quartet, Dusan Tynek Dance Company, Ijsbreker, and Providence Festival Ballet.
She most recently received commissions from Carnegie Hall, Barlow Endowment, and the San Francisco Conservatory. She participated in residencies and festivals that include New York’s New Dramatists, MacDowell Colony, American Opera Projects, Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, Rockefeller Bellagio Center, and Tanglewood.
Vrebalov received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Highsmith Composition Competition, Vienna Modern Masters, Soros Fond, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, and the Douglas Moore Fund, and has had works recorded for Vienna Modern Masters and Nonesuch. Her piece Pannonia Boundless has been published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Vrebalov is a member and co-founder of the South Oxford Six composers’ collective, and the founder of Leto u Somboru, an international workshop for young composers.
Her piece Stations for chorus, soloists and orchestra closed the 29th NOMUS festival in Novi Sad, Serbia on April 30th this year. In May, her composition "…hold me, neighbor, in this storm…" premiered by Kronos Quartet in Carnegie Hall last year, will be released by Nonesuch.
Vrebalov teaches at the CUNY/City College.
She most recently received commissions from Carnegie Hall, Barlow Endowment, and the San Francisco Conservatory. She participated in residencies and festivals that include New York’s New Dramatists, MacDowell Colony, American Opera Projects, Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, Rockefeller Bellagio Center, and Tanglewood.
Vrebalov received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Highsmith Composition Competition, Vienna Modern Masters, Soros Fond, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, and the Douglas Moore Fund, and has had works recorded for Vienna Modern Masters and Nonesuch. Her piece Pannonia Boundless has been published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Vrebalov is a member and co-founder of the South Oxford Six composers’ collective, and the founder of Leto u Somboru, an international workshop for young composers.
Her piece Stations for chorus, soloists and orchestra closed the 29th NOMUS festival in Novi Sad, Serbia on April 30th this year. In May, her composition "…hold me, neighbor, in this storm…" premiered by Kronos Quartet in Carnegie Hall last year, will be released by Nonesuch.
Vrebalov teaches at the CUNY/City College.
Composer Aleksandra Vrebalov wrote about her piece....
Pannonia Boundless was commissioned by Kronos Quartet. I was asked to do six minutes of virtuosic music that would be based on Gypsy tunes and would employ a specific playing technique of these nomadic musicians.
After the research in Radio Novi Sad archives and many visits to Gypsy taverns in Vojvodina, I wrote this piece trying to capture the continuous journey, friction between an individual and society, love and passion for life.
Pannonia Boundless was released in 2000 on Kronos Caravan by Nonesuch, and published by Boosey & Hawkes in 2007.
It was used in a movie Soupirs d’ame, by a Canadian director Helen Doyle, and in a ballet The Little Prince, choreographed by Dusan Tynek in 2003.
After the research in Radio Novi Sad archives and many visits to Gypsy taverns in Vojvodina, I wrote this piece trying to capture the continuous journey, friction between an individual and society, love and passion for life.
Pannonia Boundless was released in 2000 on Kronos Caravan by Nonesuch, and published by Boosey & Hawkes in 2007.
It was used in a movie Soupirs d’ame, by a Canadian director Helen Doyle, and in a ballet The Little Prince, choreographed by Dusan Tynek in 2003.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
MILOS RAICKOVICH, composer and conductor, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1956. He has lived and worked in Belgrade, Paris, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Hiroshima and New York, where he now resides. Raickovich’s music has been performed in numerous venues in Europe and the US. Milos Raickovich studied composition with Vasilije Mokranjac, Olivier Messiaen and David Del Tredici; and conducting with Borislav Pascan, Pierre Dervaux, and Herbert Blomstedt. He holds a Ph.D. in composition from CUNY, and has taught at several universities in the U.S. and Japan. His choral work Parastos is published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Milos Raickovich’s orchestral music is released on Mode Records, on the CD NEW CLASSICISM, featuring pianist Margaret Leng Tan and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. The Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed describes Raickovich’s music as “a unique postmodern response to both minimalism and multiculturalism.” Raickovich’s CD B-A-G-D-A-D (Albany Records), features a collection of antiwar pieces. Critic Steve Smith describes the CD in Time Out New York, “Some of the works are wistful and poignant, while others are jarring and volatile; all are inventive, provocative and timely.”
Three Romances were written in 1988, fist in a version for violin and orchestra, and later that year in a version for violin (or flute) and piano. This work belongs to New Classicism that Mr. Raickovich likes to call "his style”. In 1979, he wrote that “New Classicism may be roughly defined as a blend of musical Minimalism and the styles of Viennese Classical and early Romantic music. Its form is Classical (e.g. the sonata cycle), but tonality is reduced to only a few notes of the scale. This reduction gives tonal music a new quality—a new energy.” M.R.
Three Romances are recorded on Milos Raickovich’s CD NEW CLASSICISM, with the violinist Igor Frolov and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer (Mode Records). This CD is available in the lobby.
Milos Raickovich’s orchestral music is released on Mode Records, on the CD NEW CLASSICISM, featuring pianist Margaret Leng Tan and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. The Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed describes Raickovich’s music as “a unique postmodern response to both minimalism and multiculturalism.” Raickovich’s CD B-A-G-D-A-D (Albany Records), features a collection of antiwar pieces. Critic Steve Smith describes the CD in Time Out New York, “Some of the works are wistful and poignant, while others are jarring and volatile; all are inventive, provocative and timely.”
Three Romances were written in 1988, fist in a version for violin and orchestra, and later that year in a version for violin (or flute) and piano. This work belongs to New Classicism that Mr. Raickovich likes to call "his style”. In 1979, he wrote that “New Classicism may be roughly defined as a blend of musical Minimalism and the styles of Viennese Classical and early Romantic music. Its form is Classical (e.g. the sonata cycle), but tonality is reduced to only a few notes of the scale. This reduction gives tonal music a new quality—a new energy.” M.R.
Three Romances are recorded on Milos Raickovich’s CD NEW CLASSICISM, with the violinist Igor Frolov and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer (Mode Records). This CD is available in the lobby.
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