Aleksandra Vrebalov

Aleksandra Vrebalov, D.A. is a Full Professor of Composition at the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad. She has written more than 90 works ranging from concert music, to opera, dance and experimental and documentary film. Her work is characterized by the fusion of influences from different musical traditions of the countries in which she lived or travelled, from Serbia, to the United States, as well as the Middle East. She has written music for Western instruments, as well as ethnic and historical instruments from the Balkans, Asia, and Poland. Her works have been commissioned by Carnegie Hall, English National Ballet, Serbian National Theatre, Belgrade Philharmonic, The Forbidden City Orchestra in Beijing, Jose Limon and Rambert Dance Companies. Vrebalov has extensively collaborated with Kronos Quartet and has written 18 works for the group. A fellow of MacDowell Colony, Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Djerassi, American Opera Projects, The Hermitage, and Tanglewood, Vrebalov is the recipient of The Harvard Fromm Commission, The American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellowship, Barlow Endowment Commission, and MAP Fund grant. Vrebalov has made music with young refugees from Syria and Iraq at the Flying Carpet Festival on Turkish/Syrian border in 2018 and 2019. There are more than twenty CD releases containing Vrebalov’s work, recorded for Nonesuch, Cantaloupe, Innova, Orange Music Mountain, New Amsterdam, Centaur Records, and Vienna Modern Masters. For more info please see