836M is pleased to announce its third Creative Lab in partnership with the Kronos Performing Arts Association. On November 5th at 6:30 p.m., the Kronos Quartet will share the stage with musician Aleksandra Vrebalov, inviting audiences to witness their creative process up close.
Tom Nunn instrument showcase featuring guest speaker Sudhu Tewari
Hildur Guðnadóttir / Fólk fær andlit featuring guest speaker Andri Magnason
Aleksandra Vrebalov / The Sea Ranch Songs *
1. Spirit I
2. Fort Ross Chorale
3. Gratitude
4. Numbers
5. Ideas: Condominium One
6. Creatures
7. Chapel, Rainbows
8. Elements I
9. Starry Night
10. Ideas: Barn Fugue
11. Spirit II
12. Elements II
13. Gratitude, Coda
Aleksandra Vrebalov, the 2024 Grawemeyer Music Award recipient, has composed more than a hundred works ranging from concert music to opera, dance, and experimental and documentary film scores. Her work is characterized by a fusion of influences from various musical traditions of the countries where she has lived or traveled, including the Balkans, the United States, and the Middle East. Her works have been commissioned by Carnegie Hall/Kronos Quartet, Boston Symphony Orchestra (2024/25), English National Ballet, the Cincinnati and Glimmerglass Opera, Serbian National Theater, Belgrade Philharmonic, The Forbidden City Orchestra in Beijing, and Jose Limon and Rambert Dance Companies, and described as “refreshingly unneurotic” (NY Times), “ a strange and sober beauty” (The Times, UK), “chilling and beautifully structured” (The Guardian). She has extensively collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, for whom she has written 20 works. Vrebalov has written music for Western instruments, as well as ethnic and historical instruments from the Balkans, Asia, and Poland. A fellow of the MacDowell Colony, Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Djerassi, American Opera Projects, The Hermitage, and Tanglewood, Vrebalov has received The Harvard Fromm Commission, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellowship, the Barlow Endowment Commission, and a MAP Fund grant.
In her native Serbia, she has been honored with the Golden Badge of the Cultural and Educational Association of Serbia/Ministry of Foreign Affairs for her long-term contribution to Serbian culture (2015). She is a two-time winner of the Mokranjac Award: in 2009 for “Stations” and in 2011 for the opera “Mileva.” She has also won the “Muzika Klasika” award for Composer of the Year twice, for her opera “Mileva” (2011) and “Antennae” (2021), the latter commissioned by the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. There are more than twenty CD releases featuring Vrebalov’s work, recorded for labels such as Nonesuch, Cantaloupe, Innova, Orange Mountain Music, New Amsterdam, Centaur Records, and Vienna Modern Masters. Her self-published works are distributed by Composers Edition in London, UK. For more information, please visit Aleksandra Vrebalov’s website here.
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