CHAMBER MUSIC: SOLO, DUO, TRIO
Small chamber works by Aleksandra Vrebalov: expressive, intimate, and personal—riddle-like forms, that pieced together unfold into larger musical narratives.
Piano Solo
Danube Etude — prepared piano — 6 min
A prepared piano work using objects such as metal chains and ping-pong balls to transform the instrument’s sound into a shifting, unpredictable texture.
Indigo Codes — piano — 10 min
A meditative solo piano work inspired by children in the province of Mardin who are displaced by wars in Syria and Iraq.
Music of Patience — piano — 6 min
A concise piano piece that focuses on controlled pacing and the accumulation of small-scale musical gestures; ideal performance to be timed with tolling of a local church bell.
Two Bagatelles — piano — 5 min
Two short piano pieces paired with Beethoven’s op 119: Bagatelle #1 -Beethoven Op. 119 #5 (no repetitions) - Beethoven Op. 119 #9 (no repetition) - Vrebalov Bagatelle #2.
Solo Strings
Harding Suite — cello — 12 min
A fun multi-part work for solo cello that explores a range of articulations and registers; expressive character.
Happy Birthday! — cello — 2 min
A solo cello piece that reworks a familiar musical reference into a compact contemporary gesture.
Lila — violin — 7 min
A solo violin work, harmony and form based on the Fibonacci series.
spell no. 7 — viola — 8 min
A solo viola piece that references historical material while extending it through contemporary techniques.
Solo (Other / Electronics)
C6 — guitar — 6 min
A solo guitar work that emphasizes clarity of articulation and resonance within a concise formal span.
Portal RE — organ solo — 7 min
spell no. 3 — violin and live electronics — 7 min
A work for violin and live electronics that expands the instrument’s sound into an electronically mediated spatial environment. Samples of female ethnic singing.
Duos
A Particle of Grace — piccolo and glockenspiel — 5 min
A short work that explores the contrast between breath-based sound and sustained metallic resonance creating an independent new line of harmonics.
Constellation Hartig — violin and prepared piano - 14 min
Poetic work, explores color and character through a delicate interplay of timbre, gesture, and resonance; abstract and lyrical.
Duo Uran — clarinet and viola — 7 min
A chamber duo that explores the close timbral relationship between clarinet and viola through intertwined lines.
Eastern Chapel Meditations — violin, piano, and recorded sounds — 9 min
A work for violin and piano shaped by sustained tones and a restrained, contemplative character dedicated to Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. Samples of voices, chants, sang and spoken.
Neizvest — oboe and piano — 15 min
A chamber work for oboe and piano inspired by WW2 graveyard of fallen Russian soldiers in Sombor, Serbia.
Prayers for Isa — clarinet and prepared piano — 18 min
A set of miniatures for clarinet and prepared piano that focuses on timbral nuance and intimate, closely shaped gestures based in the sound of the Prayer of the Heart.
spell no. 1 — piano and vibraphone — 13 min
A duo for piano and vibraphone that builds a continuous sound field through resonance and overlapping decay.
spell no. 2 — for two pianos — 12 min
A work for two pianos that charts a relationship in motion—by turns glorious, combative, dependent, and vulnerable—revealed through tightly interwoven musical gestures.
The Tigris Verses — accordion and cello — open duration
An open-form composition organized in segments, allowing performers to determine pacing and overall structure; passionate, lyrical, abstract, imaginative.
Trios
Love Loops — marimba, piano, double bass — 7 min
A trio that explores cyclical rhythmic patterns and interdependent musical processes across the three instruments; jazzy, upbeat, playful.
Passion Revisited — piano trio: vn.vc.pno — 10 min
A piano trio that revisits historical expressive gestures of Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion (Erbarme Dich Mein Gott) within a contemporary context.
Souls, Boats Traveling — flute, viola, harp and recorded sounds — 12 min
A haunting trio for flute, viola, and harp that develops through fluid transitions between transparent and dense textures; samples of irish traditional singing and boat horns.
Vladimir Trio — flute, violin, viola — 9 min
A trio for flute, violin, and viola that develops a tightly interwoven texture among the three instruments ending in a lullaby from Vrebalov’s childhood and dedicated to V. Pavlov.