Compositions of Music Professor Vera Ivanova Featured at Festivals

As the winner of the 2013 Athena Festival Chamber Competition, Vera Ivanova, assistant professor of music, was invited to be in residence at the 2013 Athena Festival, where she gave master classes to composition students and a performance of her “Four Drinking Songs” for voice and piano. The “Four Drinking Songs” were commissioned by and first performed at the 2011 Staunton Music Festival, where Dr. Ivanova was an emerging composer-in-residence.

Earlier this year, her composition “Aura” for clarinet solo was performed at the 34
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Moscow Autumn International Festival and at the prestigious Moscow Philharmonic Chamber Hall, as well as at Chapman University and UC Berkley.  Her “Three Studies in Uneven Meters” for piano was selected for performance at the 16th Biennial Festival of New Music at Florida State University and soon will be released on an enhanced CD with PARMA recordings.