Aleksandra Vrebalov (born September 22, 1970) 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
Loudová 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.A highly regarded musician,
she has had residences at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center,
Tanglewood, New York's New Dramatists, MacDowell Colony, and American
Opera Projects among others. She has received Awards or Fellowships
from the 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 & Hawkes
(2007). The Kronos Quartet, with clarinetist David Krakauer, premiered
her 40-minute "Babylon, Our Own," commissioned for the 10th
anniversary season of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the
University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, in September 2011.
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
Loudová 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.A highly regarded musician,
she has had residences at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center,
Tanglewood, New York's New Dramatists, MacDowell Colony, and American
Opera Projects among others. She has received Awards or Fellowships
from the 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 & Hawkes
(2007). The Kronos Quartet, with clarinetist David Krakauer, premiered
her 40-minute "Babylon, Our Own," commissioned for the 10th
anniversary season of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the
University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, in September 2011.
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