VREBALOV, Aleksandra

VREBALOV , ALEKSANDRA, composer (Novi Sad, 22 September 1970). After her undergraduate studies in Novi Sad (1987–1992) and her master's degree in San Francisco (1995–1996), Aleksandra Vrebalov earned her doctorate in music from the University of Michigan (2002). The composer's creative profile was also formed at specialist courses for composition, during which she collaborated with important Serbian and world composers such as Zoran Erić, Osvaldo Goliov, Louis Andrisen, Marko Stropa in Europe and the USA. She worked as an assistant lecturer and later as a professor of theoretical subjects at the Universities of Novi Sad, Michigan and New York (City University of New York) from 1993 to 2013. Since 2013, he has been a visiting professor, and since 2021 a full professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.

Vrebalova has written more than 100 musical works, most of which were written at the invitation of leading cultural and musical institutions from Serbia and abroad, such as Carnegie Hall, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Beijing Forbidden City Orchestra, the Harvard/Fromm Foundation (USA), the University of California, Berkeley (USA), the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. Vrebalova has established herself as a versatile creative figure on the international composers' scene with more than 100 performances a year: her work includes concert and stage works written in traditional notation, experimental music, music for art and experimental film, and sound interventions in situ. The first of the mentioned areas of her work - concert and stage music - consists of three operas, three full-length ballets, and five choreographic units within contemporary dance programs, eight symphonic works, numerous works for chamber ensembles, as well as vocal music.

She has participated in numerous artist residencies, seminars and workshops that have covered her work: at her Alma Mater - the San Francisco Conservatory - numerous guest appearances and extended residencies in the form of seminars, individual lessons, rehearsals and masterclasses; at the Face The Music Special School for Music Talents in Manhattan - working with young musicians to prepare a contemporary repertoire that includes her works (Pannonia Boundless and My Desert, My Rose); at the University of Maryland, composer's seminar on the occasion of the world premiere of Babylon Our Own, 2011; at Dartmouth University, 2015, composers' seminar on the occasion of the premiere of Beyond Zero: 1914-1918; lecture on personal creative poetics at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2018 and at the New School in New York in 2019; Carnegie Hall's masterclass on the occasion of her 50 For the Future edition, in which her string quartet My Desert, My Rose was published.In Serbia, she presented her work to the professional and general public at the University Forum in Novi Sad (2012), the expert panel New Music Spaces at the Serbian Composers' Association in cooperation with the music editorial boards of Radio Belgrade 2 and Radio Belgrade 3 (2015), and at the lecture at the Branch of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Novi Sad, Portrait of the Artist: Aleksandra Vrebalov - Music of the Soul (2019).