Alexandra du Bois

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Alexandra du Bois discovered music through the violin, playing the instrument from the age of two years old and later began composing at age fifteen. While still in her twenties, Alexandra du Bois' compositions have already been performed throughout five continents including the United States, France, The Netherlands, Spain, Argentina, Austrailia, New Zealand, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, The Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, Vietnam, Armenia, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom at venues such as the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Barbican Hall in London, The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Smetana Hall in Prague, Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, and the Kursaal Centre in San Sebastian, Spain, New York's Carnegie and Merkin Halls; Symphony Space; Bargemusic, The Stone, and the Tribeca New Music Festival, among many others.
Alexandra du Bois' music has been featured on radio programs including BBC Radio 3, Danish Radio, ABC Radio Australia, Radio New Zealand, Chicago Public Radio, and NPR's Morning Edition.
Alexandra du Bois has been Composer-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, Carnegie Hall through The Weill Music Institute’s Professional Training Workshop: Kronos: Signature Works, Mammoth Lakes Music Festival, Merkin Concert Hall’s Zoom: Composers Close Up series, the Harrison House, and Southwest Chamber Music throughout Vietnam and California. Her commissions include those from the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, The Beaux Arts Trio, Bargemusic, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Merkin Concert Hall, Present Music with the Milwaukee Choral Artists and the Milwaukee Children's Choir, Boston's PALS Children's Chorus, The Piano Project at the Kaufman Center in New York, The Savannah Music Festival, Bang on a Can Festival, Duo Diez, The Azure Ensemble, the Chorus and Chamber Singers at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, trio MAYA, as well as musicians including Daniel Hope, Wendy Sutter, Menahem Pressler, among many others. Alexandra du Bois has received numerous grants, scholarships and awards including those from the The Netherland-America Foundation, BMI Foundation, Indiana University, The Juilliard School and The University of Massachusetts at Boston.
During the fiftieth anniversary season of the Beaux Arts Trio, pianist Menahem Pressler and the Beaux Arts Trio commissioned Alexandra du Bois’ first piano trio. The Beaux Arts Trio then premiered her Piano Trio, L'apothéose d'un rêve, at The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam followed by consecutive performances in Groningen, and Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The Felici Trio then presented the US premiere in California. During Kronos Quartet's 30th anniversary, Alexandra du Bois was chosen out of over 300 composers from 32 countries as the first recipient of the Kronos: Under 30 Project Commission. As a result, du Bois wrote String Quartet: Oculus pro oculo totum orbem terrae caecat (An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind) for the Kronos Quartet which Kronos has since performed dozens of times throughout the US and World. Du Bois' other commissions marking anniversaries include: the 30th anniversary of Bargemusic in 2000, the 35th anniversary of the University Chorus at the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 2000, and the 50th anniversary of the Kaufman Center in New York in 2004.
Du Bois' third String Quartet, Night Songs (Nachtliederen), also written for Kronos Quartet, was inspired by the life and writing of Etty Hillesum (d. 1943 Auschwitz). Alexandra du Bois retraced Hillesum's footsteps throughout the Netherlands and Poland with a grant from The Netherland-America Foundation to receive creative insight into the 30-minute quartet. Night Songs (Nachtliederen) received its world premiere alongside the NY premiere of Henryk Gorceki's third string quartet, ".songs are sung" in 2006.
A native of Virginia Beach, Virginia, Alexandra du Bois (b.1981) spent her formative years in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she studied full-time at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and the Longy School of Music during her high school years. Ms. du Bois holds a Master of Music from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Her teachers in composition have been Sven-David Sandström, Christopher Rouse, Claude Baker, Don Freund, Osvaldo Golijov, Howard Frazin, David Patterson, Philip Lasser and Edward Bilous. Her primary teachers in violin included Suzanne Schreck, Peter Haase, Stephen Shipps, David Salness, Lynn Chang, Sophie Vilker, Henryk Kowalski, and Federico Agostini. Alexandra du Bois has lived in New York City since 2005 and is a member of BMI.
All works published exclusively by Arbor Mundi Music Publishers. For inquiries into purchasing scores, parts, and/or recordings, send an email to: music@arbormundimusic.com. Alexandra du Bois' website is: www.alexandradubois.com.
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