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Performed by:
     Kronos Quartet (USA), TAJJ Quartet (Serbia), Belgrade Philharmonic with Peter Leonard conducting (Serbia), Serbian National Theater - Opera (Novi Sad), Callino Quartet (Ireland), Knoxville Symphony with Cornelia Laemmli conducting (USA), Vojvodjanski Simfonicari with Berislav Skenderovic conducting (Serbia), Philadelphia Virtuosi with Daniel Spalding conducting (USA), ETHEL, Momenta Quartet, Afiara Quartet, Voxare Quartet, Onyx String Quartet, Sausalito String Quartet (USA), Jorge Caballero, guitar, (USA), Utrecht String Quartet (Holland), Tanglewood Music Center Fellows (USA), Zeljko Lucic, baritone (Germany), Moravian Philharmonic with Jiri Mikula conducting (Czech Republic), Robert Aitken, flute, (Canada), San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra (USA), NME San Francisco Conservatory with Nicole Paiement conducting (USA), Ingmar Duo (Serbia), Orfeo Duo (USA), Brass People, (Serbia), Ana Milosavljevic, violin, Vladimir Valjarevic, Marija Ilic, Djordje Nesic, piano (USA), Borislav Cicovacki, oboe, (Serbia/Holland), Ijsbreker Ensemble (Holland), Ad Libitum Ensemble (Serbia), Jeunesse Musicale Choir (YU), Istvan Varga, cello, (Serbia/Hungary), Lunatics at Large (USA).

Commissions received from:
The Carnegie Hall Corporation (USA), Serbian National Theater (Novi Sad, Serbia), Houghton Mifflin for Festival Ballet Providence, RI (USA), Clarice Smith Performance Arts Center Maryland (USA), Barlow Endowment (USA), Orfeo Duo (USA), University of Missouri - Kansas City Conservatory of Music, Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra (USA), Kronos Quartet (USA), San Francisco Conservatory (USA), SWVCC Festival of the Arts (WV), Mannes’ Bach and Baroque Legacy Festival (NY), Merkin Concert Hall Composers’ Zoom Series New York (USA), Ad Libitum Ensemble (YU), Barbara Jancic, soprano (USA), John Psarouthakis (Greece/USA).

Residencies:
     MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, (2011, 2006, 2003, 1998)
Summer in Sombor, Serbia (July 2010 and 2009, August 2008 and 2007)
Novi Sad Music Festivities, NOMUS, Serbia (April 2009, April 2005)
University of Maryland, Clarice Smith Center (November 2008)
American Lyric Theater, NYC (November 07 – January 08)
Kotorart Festival, Kotor, Montenegro (July 2007)
Interzone Festival, Novi Sad, Sebia (May 2006)
SWVCC Festival of the Arts, Abingdon VA (April 2006)
Bach and Baroque Legacy Festival, Mannes College, NYC (March 2006)
RIPFest 7, NY (October 2005)
The Douglas Moore Fellow at the Florida Grand Opera (January and February 2005)
Festival Ballet Guest Composer, Providence, Rhode Island (2004)
The Douglas Moore Fellow at the Opera Memphis (September - December 2004)
The Douglas Moore Fellow at the Glimmerglass Opera (July and August 2004)
New Dramatists, NY (2004)
June in Buffalo, NY (2003)
American Opera Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2003)
Cabrillo Conductors/Composers’ Workshop, Santa Cruz, CA (2002)
     Other Minds Festival, San Francisco, CA, (2001)
     Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Lake Como, Italy (2000)
     Gaudeamus Seminar on contemporary works for string quartet, Amsterdam, Holland (1996)

Recordings and Publications:

Eastern Chapel Meditations on MUSIC FROM THE BALKANS, Centaur Records (2012)
The Spell III on ANA - Reflections, Innova 776 (2010), Ana Milosavljevic, assisted by Brian Mohr
The Spell III on PATH, LCMS 1001 (2010), Elizabeth Cooney assisted by Tommaso Perego
…hold me neighbor in this storm…, on Floodplain, Nonesuch (2009), Kronos Quartet
Pannonia Boundless, CD, Studentski Kulturni Centar Novi Sad (2009), TAJJ Kvartet
Pannonia Boundless, publication by Boosey&Hawkes (2007)
My Orbits - TV Biography, Serbian National Television, NS Channel, 25 minutes, (2005)
Pannonia Boundless on Hello Kronos, Japanese Memorial Edition, Nonesuch (2003), Kronos Quartet
String Quartet #2 on Other Minds 7, Other Minds (2001), Onyx String Quartet
Pannonia Boundless on Caravan, Nonesuch (2000), Kronos Quartet
Times on Vienna Modern Masters, VMM (1997), Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, J.Mikula cond.
Rodjenje Hristovo on Zvucni Letopis, Novi Sad Academy of Arts Sound Series (1992), NSAA Choir

     Collaborations:
Dusan Tynek (choreographer) on Trilogy in 2012
Nene Humphrey (visual artist) on Amygdala Project, 2011/12
David Krakauer and Kronos Quartet on Babylon, Our Own 2011
Vida Ognjenovic (playwright) on Mileva in 2009/10
David Harrington (violinist) on ...hold me, neighbor, in this storm... in 2007
   Vladimir Valjarevic (pianist) on Forgotten Anthems in 2006
     Michael John Garces (playwright) on Stations in 2005/06 and Canta Claro in 2004
     Viktor Plotnikov (choreographer) on The Widow’s Broom in 2004
     Brooke Berman (playwright) on Lava in 2004
     Lidija Srebotnjak (visual artist) on The Numbers in 1996

Awards, Fellowships and Honors:
Gold Medal “Jovan Djordjevic” from Serbian National Theater for contribution to opera, for Mileva (2012)
Muzika Klasika 2011 Composer of the Year, for Mileva (Serbia, 2012)
Meet the Composer (2011, 2003, 2000)
Mokranjceva Nagrada za Stanice/Mokranjac Award for Stations (2010)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellowship (2007)
ASCAP Standard Award (2003-11)
Barlow Endowment (2006)
US Permanent Resident status, based on the achievement in Composition (2005)
American Music Center Copying Grant for The Widow’s Broom (2004)
Friends and Enemies of New Music, NY, US (2004), First prize for Canta Claro
The Douglas Moore Fellowship (2004)
   ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Fund for participation at June in Buffalo (2003)
     Friends and Enemies of New Music, NY (2003), Honorable Mention for C6 for solo guitar
     Rackham Block Music Grant, University of Michigan, (2002)
     J&V McIntosh Memorial Graduate Fellowship, University of Michigan (2001/02)
University of Michigan Humanities Fellowship (2001/02)
Rockefeller Bellagio Center Fellowship, Italy (2000)
University of Michigan Regents Fellowship (1999/2000, 2000/01)
Otto Eckstein Family Fellowship, Tanglewood (1999)
     Gaudeamus/Gigant Center for the Arts Fellowship, Holland (1998)
     SR Yugoslavia/Province of Vojvodina Artist Grant, Serbia (1997)
     The Vienna Modern Masters Recording Award, Austria - USA (1997), First Prize for Times
     Gaudeamus Foundation Grant, Holland (1996)
     The Highsmith Composition Competition at SFCM, CA, USA (1996), First Prize for Times
     San Francisco Conservatory Fellowship (1995/96)
     Open Society/Soros Fond Grants, Serbia (1995, 1998)
     SR Yugoslavia Ministry of Culture and Education Grant (1995)

Education:
Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Composition, University of Michigan (2002)
Master of Music in Music Composition, San Francisco Conservatory (1996)
Bachelor of Music in Music Composition, Novi Sad University, Yugoslavia (1992)

Additional Composition Studies:
Darmstadt International Music Courses, Germany (2000)
Tanglewood Music Center, USA (Osvaldo Golijov, George Benjamin, 1999)
Apeldoorn Young Composers’ Meeting, Holland (Louis Andriessen, Richard Barrett, 1998)
Prague Academy of Music, Czech Republic (Ivana Loudova, 1997)
New York University Summer Composition Workshop, USA (Justin Dello Joio, 1996)
Belgrade University, Yugoslavia (Zoran Eric, 1993 – 1994)
Summer Courses in Sombathely in collaboration with IRCAM, Hungary (Marco Stroppa, 1992)
Summer Courses in Kazimierz Dolny, collaboration with IRCAM, Poland (Magnus Lindberg, 1990)

Teachers - Composition and Theory:
Evan Chambers, Michael Daugherty, Andrew Mead (University of Michigan)
Osvaldo Golijov, George Benjamin, (Tanglewood Music Center)
Ivana Loudova (Prague Academy of Music)
Justin Dello Joio (New York University)
Elinor Armer, Conrad Susa (San Francisco Conservatory)
Zoran Eric, Miroslav Statkic (Serbia)

College Level Teaching:
CUNY/City College New York – Music Theory, Composition and Orchestration (2003-12)
Novi Sad University – Summer Composition Workshop (June 2005)
University of Michigan – (GSI) Music Theory: Aural Skills (2000, 2001)
University of Michigan – (GSI) Introduction to Music Theory (2000)
Novi Sad University – Composition Seminar (1997, 1999)
Novi Sad University – Music Theory: Structural Analysis of Music I and II (1993, 1994, 1997, 1999)

Bibliography:
Articles by Aleksandra Vrebalov:
New Music Summer Courses in Darmstadt: New Sound, ISSN 0354-818X No. 17, 2001
       (in Serbian and English)
Moral i Mitologija u Savremenoj Umetnosti, AUNS, Centar Susreta Pokret, Novi Sad, 1995 (in Serbian)

Articles on Aleksandra Vrebalov:
Ivana Stefanovic: Mileva i “Mileva,” Scena No. 4, 2011, YU ISSN 0036-5734 (In Serbian)
Milan Markovic: Intimni dnevnik opere Mileva, Nova Misao No.13, October 2011, (in Serbian)
Bogdan Ðakovic: The Road of the Cross and the Road of a Man — Stations, Matica srpska Journal of
Stage Art and Music, No. 42, 2010, ISSN 0352-9738
David Harrington: …hold me, neighbor, in this storm…, Chamber Music Vol. 26, No. 5, 2009
Mirko Sebic/Adrian Kranjcevic: Stanice na putu, Nova Misao No.1, July 2009, (in Serbian)
Tatjana Marković: "Vrebalov, Aleksandra," Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2nd ed., ed. by
Ludwig Finscher (Kassel: Bärenreiter; Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008), 1053-1054
Brendan Tapley: Peaceful Measures, MacDowell Newsletter Vol. 37, No. 1, 2008
Tatjana Markovic: In Orbits of Aleksandra Vrebalov, New Sound No. 27, 2006 (in Serbian and English)
Ira Prodanov: Quotation in Works of Aleksandra Vrebalov, Collect papers of V International symposium “Folklore-music-work”, Belgrade, 1997 (in Serbian and English)
Ira Prodanov: String Quartet No. 1 by Aleksandra Vrebalov, New Sound No. 9, 1997 (in Serbian and English)