Aleksandra Vrebalov Receives the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
Congratulations to our dear friend and collaborator Aleksandra Vrebalov, a visiting artist and teacher at Arts Letters & Numbers’ Creative Music Intensive, on receiving the 2024 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, recognizing outstanding achievement by a living composer. The award honors those who bring beauty and inspiration into the world, and we are thrilled to see Aleksandra’s contributions celebrated at this level.
“LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Serbian-American composer Aleksandra Vrebalov (VREH'-bah-lawv) has won the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for "Missa Supratext," a nontraditional choral work for string quartet and girls' chorus.
Kronos Quartet, a group long known for nurturing musical innovation, and San Francisco Girls' Chorus, a Bay Area group for young women from diverse backgrounds, premiered the 22-minute work in 2018 in San Francisco with Valerie Sainte-Agathe conducting. The piece also incorporates bells, Tibetan bowls and musical saw.” – PR Newswire