From Kronos Quartet:
“We initially met in the mid-1990s when Aleksandra was a student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. After she sent us a cassette of her work and David met her for coffee, we became friends and collaborators. Since then, she has written 16 works for Kronos. Our commercial recordings of her work include "... hold me, neighbor, in this storm..." on Floodplain, "Pannonia Boundless" on Caravan, "The Sea Ranch Songs," and "Bubbles" with the San Francisco Girls Chorus for their release Final Answer. Aleksandra also composed "My Desert, My Rose" for 50ForTheFuture: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, which you can download the score and parts for right now at:
http://50ftf.kronosquartet.org/composers/aleksandra-vrebalov
Kronos Quartet - inspired, performed, and/or commissioned the following works:
1997 - String Quartet No. 2, premiered by Kronos Quartet in Vienna, 14 minutes
1999 - Pannonia Boundless, commissioned by Kronos Quartet, released on Nonesuch, Kronos Caravan, 7 minutes
1999 - Op. 29, inspired by and written for Kronos Quartet, sketched during the NATO bombing of Serbia, never played by the group, 12 minutes
2008 - “....hold me, neighbor, in this storm...” commissioned by Carnegie Hall, premiered and recorded by KQ; released on Nonesuch, Floodplain, 18 minutes
2009 - Spell No. 4, written for David Harrington’s 60th birthday, premiered at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, 8 minutes
2010 - Ursong, finale from Vrebalov’s Mileva, written first for KQ and orchestrated for the opera. Premiered at Le Poisson Rouge with Judith Berkson in NYC, 6 minutes
2011 - Babylon, Our Own, clarinet quintet, with clarinetist David Krakauer, commissioned for Kronos by Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, UMD, 36 minutes
2012 - Bubbles, in collaboration with Brooklyn Youth Chorus, 8 minutes
2013 - Wagner’s Prelude to Tristan and Liebestod, arrangement, commissioned by David Harrington Research Fund for Kronos, 10 minutes
2013 - arrangement of Byzantine Chant V Pamjat Vechuju, written for Kronos Quartet for the Black Hole performances, 6 minutes
2014 - Beyond Zero: 1914 - 1918, with film by Bill Morrison, commissioned by Cal Performances, 42 minutes
2015 - The Sea Ranch Songs, commissioned by The Sea Ranch Association and private donors for the 50th anniversary of Sea Ranch, released on Cantaloupe Records, 60 minutes
2015 - COSMIC LOVE, a minute of music in celebration of Terry Riley’s 80th Birthday
2016 - My Desert, My Rose, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for 50ForTheFuture, 7 minutes
2017 - Let Them In, in response to the Middle East travel ban, premiered at WYNC/Green Space NYC, 2 minutes
2018 - Missa Supratext, in collaboration with San Francisco Girls’ Choir, premiered at Kronos HERE AND NOW Festival, 20 minutes
2020 - Antennae, A Fragment, arranged for Kronos Quartet and Monk Hierotheos during the pandemic as their first work rehearsed and premiered online, while in isolation, 5 minutes
2022 - ilektrikés rímes, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and David Harrington Research Fund, premiered in Carnegie Hall in April 2022, 20 minutes
2023 - Gold Came From Space, commissioned by The Friends of Kronos at The Sea Ranch for the quartet’s 50th anniversary, 20 minutes