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Composer Veronika Judita Krausas has had her works performed in Canada, the United States, Australia, Germany (at the Darmstadt New Music Festival), the Netherlands and Romania. The Globe & Mail (Toronto) writes that "her works, whose organic, lyrical sense of storytelling are supported by a rigid formal elegance, give her audiences a sense that nature's frozen objects are springing to life."
She was born in Sydney, Australia and raised in Canada. She has received commissions from the Penderecki String Quartet, ERGO Projects, Continuum Music, Toca Loca, and two commissions for Motion Music (Canada) including a Millennium Project Grant, and several Interdisciplinary Grants from the University of Southern California Arts Initiative and Subito grants from the American Composers Forum. She has music composition degrees from the University of Toronto, McGill University in Montreal, and a doctorate from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
In 2008 she organized a concert (at the University of Southern California) and CD release for The Player Piano Project – a collection of works for player piano by 22 composers from 6 countries. In 2009 the Penderecki String Quartet gave the US Premiere of her work for string quartet and mezzo-soprano at REDCAT theater in Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
Her chamber opera The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth was premiered at the New York Opera’s VOX 2008 festival and was staged in San Francisco by Goat Hall Productions.
Since 1998 Krausas has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events in Los Angeles that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video. A CD of her chamber music was released in 2002 by Motion Ensemble. Her works for duo guitar appear on the FOOD: New Works for Duo Guitar.
Krausas is presently on faculty in the Composition Department at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a lecturer at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
www.veronikakrausas.com
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