Alexandra Fol

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Alexandra Fol (born July 11, 1981 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian composer and organist. Born in Sofia, she studied composition at Boston University and the Eastman School of Music. Fol currently resides in Montreal, Canada, where she is pursuing a Doctorate in composition. Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, including two requiems, a symphony, a concerto for piano and orchestra, a concerto for violin and orchestra, two concerti for viola and orchestra, "A Swan Song for the Impossible Love" - a bass clarinet concerto, "Cinderella" - monodrama for narrator and orchestra, and many chamber works. Fol’s "Two Songs for Voice and Orchestra" were performed by one of the Tokyo Symphony orchestras in 1994 and her Concerto for Violin was premiered on a 16th c. Storioni violin by Leonid Iogansen and the Boston University Orchestra in 2001. In 2005 Fol was one of four composers commissioned to write a children’s work for the 70th anniversary of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra’s Children’s series. "Pegasus", op. 37 was performed throughout the 2005-2006 Montréal Symphony Orchestra Children’s Series and included in an educational CD for children. Fol’s other commissions include chamber music premiered in Carnegie Hall, two short film scores, "Requiem No. 2, op. 40" for the McGill University Symphony Orchestra. Her works have also been played by the Sofia Philharmonic orchestra and the Young Artists Orchestra. Fol is finalist for the 2006 Gaudeamus Prize in composition and a 2007 Tanglewood Music Center composition fellow. She is recipient of two grants by the Canada Council for the Arts