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.
Monday, May 4, 2009
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