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Composer Veronika Judita Krausas has had her works performed in Canada, the United States, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and Romania.
In March 2007 the Penderecki String Quartet premiered Midaregami (her new work for string quartet and mezzo-soprano). In 2006 ERGO Projects, led by conductor Alex Pauk, premiered Analemma for chamber orchestra at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto. In 1996 Musik Fabrik, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke, premiered her chamber orchestra piece Spirals of Sense at the Darmstadt New Music Festival. She has received commissions from the Canada Council for Continuum Music, Ergo Projects, the Penderecki Quartet and two commissions for Motion Music (Canada) including a Millennium Project Grant, and grants from the American Composers Forum.
Her chamber opera, The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth, was selected by the New York Opera for their 2008 VOX Festival of New Works for Opera.
Since 1998 she has directed, composed for, and produced numerous multi-media events in Los Angeles incorporating her works with dance performances and video presentations by local Los Angeles artists. These artists include former and current Cirque du Soleil creators and performers. In 2002 she was awarded two Arts Initiative Faculty Grants at the University of Southern Caliifornia for interdisciplinary projects. The first, The Courtyard with acrobats, video and music, was presented during the USC Spring Arts Festival in 2002. The second Asymptote was presented at the Brewery Art Center in Los Angeles and involved the Arts, Architecture, Physics, English and Music Departments.
The Bestiary/Le Bestaire (a collection of children’s piano pieces) was published by Frederick Harris Music Publishers in Canada and two of the works are in the Royal Conservatory of Music’s piano syllabus. A CD of her chamber music was released in 2002 by Motion Ensemble in Canada. Her works for duo guitar appear on the FOOD: New Works for Duo Guitar. Her book of graffiti photography IN + ON is available at lulu.com.
Krausas is presently on faculty in the Composition Department at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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