Title: Xenia and the Bishop
Commission: 2014
Completed: 2017
Instrumentation:
Premiere Location: May 23, 2019 at the Kosciuszko Foundation, New York
Premiere Ensemble: Sylvan Winds and Daria Karic, narrator

Aleksandra Vrebalov’s 90 works—ranging from concert music and opera to music for modern dance and film—have been commissioned by Carnegie Hall, English National Ballet, Royal Academy of Music, Harvard/Fromm Foundation, Glimmerglass Festival, CalArts, Barlow Foundation, and performed by the Kronos Quartet, The Serbian National Theater Opera and Orchestra, English National Ballet, Rambert Dance, Jorge Caballero, the Sausalito Quartet, ETHEL, Dusan Tynek Dance Company, Ijsbreker, Moravian Philharmonic, Belgrade Philharmonic, and Providence Festival Ballet, among others. Her works have been recorded for Nonesuch, Cantaloupe, Innova, Centaur Records, Vienna Modern Masters, and Ikarus Films. Vrebalov’s string quartet …hold me, neighbor, in this storm… was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and released on Kronos’ album Floodplain. Pannonia Boundless, also for Kronos, was published by Boosey & Hawkes as part of “The Kronos Collection, Vol. I” and was recorded for the album Caravan.

Vrebalov received The Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Hoefer Prize from the San Francisco Conservatory, The Harvard Fromm Commission, the Barlow Endowment Commission, as well as awards from ASCAP, American Music Center, Meet the Composer, MAP Fund, Vienna Modern Masters, and Friends and Enemies of New Music. As the Douglas Moore Fellow, supported by the Columbia University’s Alice Ditson Fund, she spent a season in the Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Memphis and Florida Grand Opera, where she immersed herself in all aspects of opera production. Her opera Mileva (2011) had its world premiere at the 150th Anniversary season of the Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad.