Aleksandra Vrebalov
Serbian composer
Aleksandra Vrebalov (born September 22, 1970) is a Serbian-American composer based in New York City and Novi Sad, Serbia.
Biography
Vrebalov was born in the former Yugoslavia and came to the United States for study in 1995. She became a U.S. citizen in 2015. Vrebalov 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 was Composition Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center in summer 1999. Vrebalov earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan where she studied with Evan Chambers and Michael Daugherty.
Aleksandra Vrebalov's more than 100 works range from concert music and opera to music for modern dance and film. Her music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, Glimmerglass Opera with Cincinnati Opera, Serbian National Theater, English National Ballet, Rambert Dance, Sybarite5, Jorge Caballero, the Sausalito Quartet, ETHEL string quartet, Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre, Ijsbreker, Moravian Philharmonic, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, and Festival Ballet Providence, among others. Vrebalov's cross-disciplinary interests led to participation at residencies and fellowships that include the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Artists Residency, The Hermitage, New York's New Dramatists, Rockefeller Bellagio Center, American Opera Project, and the Other Minds Festival. Between 2007 and 2011, Vrebalov created and led Summer in Sombor (Serbia), a weeklong composition workshop with the South Oxford Six composers' collective that she co-founded in 2002 in New York City.
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