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Vera Ivanova graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (Honours Diploma), Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (MM with distinction), and the Eastman School of Music (Ph.D. in Composition). Her works have been performed in Russia, Europe and the U.S.A.
After teaching as Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at the Setnor School of Music of Syracuse University (NY), she was appointed as Assistant Professor of Music in the College of Performing Arts at Chapman University (Orange, CA).
Ms. Ivanova is a recipient of the Sproull Fellowship at Eastman, the Gwyn Ellis Bequest Scholarship at Guildhall School, Moscow Culture Committee and American Composers Forum Subito grants, Honourable mention at the 28th Bourges Electro-Acoustic Competition, 3rd Prize at the 8th International Mozart Competition, 1st Prize in Category "A" at International Contest of Acousmatic Compositions Métamorphoses 2004 (Belgium), the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, the André Chevillion-Yvonne Bonnaud Composition Prize at the 8th International Piano Competition at Orléans (France) and Special Award from Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music.
Her music is available in print from Universal Edition and Theodore Front Music Literature, Inc., SCI Journal of Music Scores (vol. 45), on CD's from Ablaze Records (Millennial Masters series, Vol. 2), Quartz Music, Ltd., PARMA Recordings (SCI CD series, No. 27), Musiques & Recherches (Métamorphoses 2004), Centaur Records (CRC 3056), and on her website at: www.veraivanova.com.
Ms. Ivanova can be reached via email at: vera.ivanova [at] gmail.com
(updated: 16 October 2011)
Press:Variations on chords: Distances for Symphony Orchestra (2003) (excerpt) by Vera Ivanova'...internationally recognized as an emerging artist of great talent.'
Campus Times (University of Rochester/Eastman)'...Solo violin also features in VERA IVANOVA's tremendous QUIET LIGHT: an abstract, searching evocation of light as it penetrates the dome of an ancient church.'
Ablaze Records, CD liner notes to Millennial Masters, Vol. 2'...humanistic and deeply felt works...
...they manage to express aspects of the human experience through an artistic medium that is not often associated with such deeply felt emotions...'
John Bilotta (Society of Composers, Inc.)'...our five finalists are probably the best young composers working anywhere in the world today!'
Dr. Paul Mealor (on the finalists for the 2005 Aberdeen Music Prize, including Ivanova)