"But For What’s My Axis" Empire, is the first of three multidisciplinary performative works made in collaboration between visual artist Kara Rooney, composer Fatrin Krajka, and poets Betsy Fagin, Laura Henriksen, and Marine Cornuet. This project takes the institutionalization of language as its starting point. The overarching aim of the work is to grapple with, decenter, and disassemble this large invisible spectre that continues to infiltrate as well as amplify our historical, relational, and sociopolitical involvements

PURCHASE

EMPIRE

Fractures

Core

Illusion

Fatrin’s most recent project was the score for NETFLIX’s new short film “HOME” released February 2021 with director Ellie Foumbi. He scored for the Narrative Gold in both BAFTA LA & the Student Academy Awards 2016. He was also awarded "Best Score in a Feature" at the Southampton Film Festival (UK) for "Anatomy of the Tide" in 2015. He is currently is in post-production for his latest feature score “Winter Fireflies’ with European director Artur Gorishti. Fatrin is also a recurring judge at the Brooklyn Film Festival and the International Film Festival of NY since 2017.

In 2019, Fatrin arranged & conducted the music of his first string quartet with the National Opera & Ballet Orchestra of Albania. A year later, he finalized his second string quartet as well as a a new contemporary chamber ensemble work: Zoltavia. Fatrin’s first soundtrack album “Zois” was released in 2017. He also released an EP album “Empire” : A trilogy work in collaboration with multi-disciplinary artist Kara Rooney that premiered in NYC at the Totah and Fridman gallery, 2018/2019.

In addition to composition, Fatrin has also established himself as a concert pianist. He has performed on numerous international concert stages including Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall, NYC.

Fatrin was raised in a celebrated family of musicians. His father, with whom he originally studied composition and orchestration, is a renowned composer and songwriter. His mother is a former violist with the Albanian National Orchestra. After the fall of communism in 1992, Fatrin moved to New York, and was subsequently accepted to La Guardia High School for Music and Performing Arts. There, he studied viola and pursued his education in piano. His talent rapidly flourished and led him to study piano performance at the Manhattan School of Music conservatory.