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"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." (Globe & Mail , Toronto)
Composer Veronika Judita Krausas was born in Sydney, Australia and raised from the age of four in Canada. Her works have been performed in Canada, the United States, Australia, Germany (at the Darmstadt Music Festival), the Netherlands and Romania. She has been commissioned by Motion Ensemble, the Penderecki String Quartet, Continuum Music, and Ergo Projects. 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 Krausas has been producing multi-media presentations in Los Angeles that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video presentations. Mnemosyne, a CD of her chamber music, was released in 2002 by Motion Ensemble in Canada. Her works for duo guitar were released on FOOD: New Music for Guitar Duo in 2005. Her book of graffiti photography IN + ON is available at lulu.com.
She is currently on faculty at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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