{"id":856,"date":"2013-09-25T13:19:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/copa\/2013\/09\/25\/music-professor-wins-composition-competition\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:19:56","slug":"music-professor-wins-composition-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/copa\/2013\/09\/25\/music-professor-wins-composition-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Professor Wins Composition Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n
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\nVera Ivanova, assistant professor of music, has won the 2013 Earplay Donald Aird Composers Competition with her composition for piano
\n“Three Studies in Uneven Meters.”<\/a>
\n The prize comes with a monetary award and a performance of the winning composition at the closing concert of the Earplay ensemble’s 2013-2014 season on May 19th, 2014 at the ODC Theater in San Francisco, CA. “Three Studies,” recorded with the pianist Mikhail Korzhev (CSUF faculty), is also scheduled for release on Navona Records’ enhanced CD
\nAllusions<\/em><\/a>
\n and for another performance at the “35th International Moscow Autumn Festival” on November 27th, 2013 in Moscow, Russia. Last year “Three Studies” was performed at the 16th Biennial Festival of New Music at the Florida State University and at the last two concerts of the Locrian Chamber Players
\n <\/i>
\nensemble’s 2012-13 season in New York and Brooklyn.  Vera also had two other pieces released on CD: “Aftertouch” for piano, performed and recorded by Bulgarian-American pianist Daniela Mineva (Humboldt State University faculty), was released on
\nNova<\/a>
\n with Navona Records, and “Mbira, or in Cage with Adams”, for digitally retuned piano, composed for Aron Kallay (Chapman University’s Conservatory of Music and USC faculty), who extensively performed it last year on his national tour “Beyond 12,” was just released on his
\nalbum<\/a>
\n of the same name with MicroFest Records. “Mbira, or in Cage with Adams,” is not the only of Vera’s recent compositions which refer to John Cage’s centennial anniversary, widely celebrated in 2012; she was also selected on a competitive basis to contribute a short miniature to the collective composition
\n <\/i>
\nCAGE 100 Party Pieces Project<\/i><\/a>
\n, which will be premiered on October 17th, 2013 at Miller Theatre in New York, NY. In Fall 2013, Vera started teaching music theory classes at the
\nColburn Young Artists Academy<\/a>
\n.  And lastly, Vera’s compositional project was selected on a competitive basis to be written in a residency at the
\nMacDowell Colony<\/a>
\n in winter 2013-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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