Aleksandra Vrebalov (1970- )
Aleksandra
Vrebalov, native of Ex-Yugoslavia, left Serbia in 1995
and continued education in the US. She holds a doctorate from
University of Michigan where she studied with Evan Chambers and Michael
Daugherty, and a master’s degree from San Francisco Conservatory where
her teacher was Elinor Armer. She participated in master classes and
workshops that include New York University Summer Composition Workshop,
Music Courses in Darmstadt (Germany), Szombathely (Hungary) and
Kazimierz Dolny (Poland) in collaboration with IRCAM, and Cabrillo
Festival in Santa Cruz, CA. Vrebalov’s works have been performed
by the Kronos Quartet, Cabrillo
Festival Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, Vladimir Valjarevic, Jorge
Caballero, Sausalito Quartet, Dusan Tynek Dance Company, Ijsbreker, and
Moravian Philharmonic, among others. Recent residencies and
festivals include Southwest Virginia Festival of the Arts and
Mannes College of
Music Bach Festival in New York City in 2006, RIPFest in New York City
and Nomus (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia) in 2005, Florida Grand Opera,
Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Memphis, Festival Ballet Providence, and New
York’s New Dramatists in 2004, MacDowell Colony and American Opera
Projects in 2003, June in Buffalo in 2002, OM Festival in San Francisco
in 2001, Rockefeller Bellagio Center in 2000, and Tanglewood in 1999.
In 2006 Vrebalov was commissioned to write a piano concerto based on
Balkan themes for Vladimir Valjarevic and Knoxville Symphony, and a
piano trio for Bach and Baroque Legacy Festival at the Mannes College
of Music in NYC. Three of her string quartets were performed by TAJJ
String Quartet at the 2006 Interzone Festival in Serbia. The
premiere of the orchestral work
Orbits opened the 30th Novi Sad Music Festivities and was broadcast
live on Serbian National Television NS Channel. The same channel
produced a 30-minute television biography of Vrebalov. In 2004,
Vrebalov received awards from ASCAP, American Music Center, Meet the
Composer, The Douglas Moore Fund, and Friends and Enemies of New Music.
Her full length ballet The Widow’s Broom, based on a book by Chris Van
Allsburg and choreographed by Boston Ballet’s Viktor Plotnikov opened
the 27th season of the Festival Ballet in Providence, RI in October
2004. Vrebalov teaches at the City
College/CUNY. COMPOSITIONS Vrebalov Links ~ ~ ~ Works by Genre ~ ~ ~ Vrebalov on Vrebalov
Preludium, violin and piano (1987?)
Rodjenje Hristovo, [chorus?] (????)
Birth of Christ - The Prayer of the Blind, chorus (1988)
My Hunger is Eternal, baritone, flute and piano (1989?)
Night on the Reef, tenor and piano (1989?)
Neizvest, oboe and piano (1990?)
Four Riders (Cetiri jahaca), chorus (1990?)
Tale, cello and piano (1991?)
Fairy’s Song, string ensemble (????)
Kaleidoscope, orchestra (????)
Larry Is Not With Us Any More, brass quintet (1994?)
Times, orchestra (1995)
String Quartet No. 1 (1995)
Air and Fugue, percussion, harp and harpsichord (1996)
Elegy for N.N., soprano and chamber ensemble (1996)
Duo Uran, clarinet and viola (1996)
Vladimir Trio, flute, violin and viola (1997)
String Quartet No. 2 (1997)
Pannonia Boundless, string quartet (1998)
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1998)
C6, guitar (1999)
Op. 29, soprano and string quartet (1999)
Orders, 2 flutes, guitar, piano, violin and cello (2000)
The Song of Lilies, countertenor, 2 tenors and baritone (2000; rev. 2007)
Blake Songs, soprano and piano (2001)
Minoans, orchestra (2001)
Krete Suite, string quintet (2002)
Forgotten Anthems, orchestra (2002)
Orbits, orchestra (2002)
AOP Songbook, a set of five art songs, for different solo voices and piano (2003)
A Dream of Mrs. Pilat, a Singspiel scene, 3 singers and piano (2003)
Along With Youth, soprano and 2 violins (2003)
Lava, mezzo-soprano and piano (2004)
Canta Claro, 2 female voices and piano (2004)
The Widow’s Broom, ballet (2004) [story: Chris Van Allsburg; choreography: Victor Plotnikov; sets: Eugene Lee]
Lila, violin (2004)
Seeing Beauty, film score (2005)
Passion Revisited, piano trio (violin, cello and piano) (2005)
Forgotten Anthems II, piano and orchestra (2006)
Stations, soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra (2007)
Two Bagatelles, piano (2007)
Transparent Walls, 10 winds, percussion, celesta and cello (2007)
Altezura, [opera?], soprano, baritone and piano (2007) [libretto: Deborah Brevoort]
…hold me, neighbor, in this storm…, string quartet, gusle, tapan and tape (2008)
The Spell II, 2 two pianos (2008)
The Spell III, violin and live electronics (2008)
The Spell, piano and vibraphone (2009)
spell no. 4, for a changing world, string quartet, tibetan bowl, chimes and prerecorded sounds (2009)
Eastern Chapel Meditations, violin, piano and prerecorded sounds (2010)
Clarinet Quintet, clarinet and string quartet (2011)
Harding Suite, cello (2011)
Mileva, opera in 2 acts (2011)
- Der Sonnenuhr, soprano & string quartet (2010) [excerpt from Mileva, opera in progress] [text: Goethe]
WORKS BY GENRE Vrebalov Links ~ ~ ~ Vrebalov on Vrebalov ~ top of page ~
Dramatic/Theater
A Dream of Mrs. Pilat, a Singspiel scene, 3 singers and piano (2003)
The Widow’s Broom, ballet (2004) [story: Chris Van Allsburg; choreography: Victor Plotnikov; sets: Eugene Lee]
Altezura, [opera?], soprano, baritone and piano (2007) [libretto: Deborah Brevoort]
Transparent Walls, 10 winds, percussion, celesta and cello (2007) [choreographed in 2010 by Dusan Tynek]
Mileva, opera in 2 acts (2011)
Orchestra
Fairy’s Song, string ensemble (????)
Kaleidoscope, orchestra (????)
Times, orchestra (1995)
Minoans, orchestra (2001)
Forgotten Anthems, orchestra (2002)
Orbits, orchestra (2002)
Soloist(s) w/Orchestra
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1998)
Forgotten Anthems II, piano and orchestra (2006)
Chorus w/Orchestra
Stations, soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra (2007)
Choral
Rodjenje Hristovo, [chorus?] (????)
Birth of Christ - The Prayer of the Blind, chorus (1988)
Four Riders (Cetiri jahaca), chorus (1990?)
Chamber
Fairy’s Song, string ensemble (????)
Larry Is Not With Us Any More, brass quintet (1994?)
String Quartet No. 1 (1995)
Air and Fugue, percussion, harp and harpsichord (1996)
Duo Uran, clarinet and viola (1996)
Vladimir Trio, flute, violin and viola (1997)
String Quartet No. 2 (1997)
Pannonia Boundless, string quartet (1998)
Orders, 2 flutes, guitar, piano, violin and cello (2000)
Krete Suite, string quintet (2002)
Passion Revisited, piano trio (violin, cello and piano) (2005)
Transparent Walls, 10 winds, percussion, celesta and cello (2007) [choreographed in 2010 by Dusan Tynek]
…hold me, neighbor, in this storm…, string quartet, gusle, tapan and tape (2008)
The Spell, piano and vibraphone (2009)
Spell no. 4, for a changing world, string quartet, tibetan bowl, chimes and prerecorded sounds (2009)
Eastern Chapel Meditations, violin, piano and prerecorded sounds (2010)
Clarinet Quintet, clarinet and string quartet (2011)
Instrument and Piano
Preludium, violin and piano (1987?)
Neizvest, oboe and piano (1990?)
Tale, cello and piano (1991?)
Solo Instrument
C6, guitar (1999)
Lila, violin (2004)
The Spell III, violin and live electronics (2008)
Harding Suite, cello (2011)
Piano
Two Bagatelles, piano (2007)
The Spell II, 2 pianos (2008)
Vocal
My Hunger is Eternal, baritone, flute and piano (1989?)
Night on the Reef, tenor and piano (1989?)
Elegy for N.N., soprano and chamber ensemble (1996)
Op. 29, soprano and string quartet (1999)
The Song of Lilies, countertenor, 2 tenors and baritone (2000; rev. 2007)
Blake Songs, soprano and piano (2001)
AOP Songbook, a set of five art songs, for different solo voices and piano (2003)
Along With Youth, soprano and 2 violins (2003)
Lava, mezzo-soprano and piano (2004)
Canta Claro, 2 female voices and piano (2004)
Der Sonnenuhr, soprano & string quartet (2010) [excerpt from Mileva, opera in progress] [text: Goethe]
Incidental/Film
Seeing Beauty, film score (2005)
Electronic
…hold me, neighbor, in this storm…, string quartet, gusle, tapan and tape (2008)
The Spell III, violin and live electronics (2008)
spell no. 4, for a changing world, string quartet, tibetan bowl, chimes and prerecorded sounds (2009)
Eastern Chapel Meditations, violin, piano and prerecorded sounds (2010)
VREBALOV LINKS Works by Genre ~ ~ ~ Vrebalov on Vrebalov ~ top of page ~
Aleksandra Vrebalov - Finding Your Roots by Replanting Them (Frank J. Oteri, NewMusicBox)
Aleksandra Vrebalov: Stanice na putu (Adrian Kranjčević, Mirko Sebić, Nova Misao) (in Serbian; translated by google here)
Opera on Mileva Einstein (Vicky Premate, politika.rs) (in Serbian; translated by google here)
Composer's website . . . contact Aleksandra Vrebalov: here
Vrebalov @ Wikipedia
Vrebalov @ American Opera Projects
Vrebalov @ Carnegie Hall Commissions
Vrebalov @ Center for the Performing Arts
Vrebalov @ Classical Archives
Vrebalov @ Cultural Centre of Novi Sad (in Serbian)
Vrebalov @ Facebook
Vrebalov @ InstantEncore
Vrebalov @ MusicWeb International
Vrebalov @ The New York Times
Vrebalov @ Other Minds
Vrebalov @ South Oxford Six
Vrebalov @ WSO New Music Festival
Publisher
Vrebalov @ Composer's website
Vrebalov @ Boosey & Hawkes
Streaming Audio
Vrebalov @ Composer's website
Vrebalov @ Carnegie Hall Commissions
Vrebalov @ Classical Archives
Vrebalov @ last.fm
Vrebalov @ Other Minds
Recordings
Vrebalov @ Composer's website
Vrebalov @ ArkivMusic
Vrebalov @ ClassicsOnline
Vrebalov @ Discogs
Video
Vrebalov @ YouTube
Vrebalov @ Google Video
Vrebalov @ Vimeo
Vrebalov @ NewMusicBox
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Vrebalov on Vrebalov: Finding Your Roots by Replanting Them/NewMusicBox (VIDEO)
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