The music Alexandra du Bois (Ph.D. Stony Brook University; M.M. The Juilliard School; B.M. Indiana University Jacobs School of Music) has been performed in concert halls across five continents—her travels connecting her tangibly to the countries that inform and inspire her work. Described as “an intense, luminous American composer,” (Los Angeles Times) and “a painter who knows exactly where her picture will be hung” (New York Times), du Bois writes orchestral, choral, chamber, vocal, and multi-discipline works often propelled by issues of indifference and inequality throughout the United States and the world. Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia and a Northeast coast resident for most of her life, Alexandra du Bois (b.1981) found her voice through the violin, beginning lessons at the age of two years old. After moving to rural Virginia, she began hearing music in the natural world around her. It was this intimate connection to nature, meditation, and the sea that inspired her to begin writing and underscores her work to this day. Recent commissions include those from Institut Curie, Paris, Kronos Quartet, San Francisco, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York City. Alexandra du Bois is currently Composition Faculty at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. Her work has been described as “offering an extraordinary interface between traditional and avant-garde” (New Zealand Herald), “an impressively sustained essay in musical melancholy,” (The Guardian), and “a stunning piece that explores the landscape of war and conflict” (BBC).
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