Ivan Tcherepnin

Ivan Tcherepnin

Ivan Tcherepnin (born February 5, 1943 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, died April 11, 1998 in Boston, USA) was an experimental, then later modernist/postmodernist, composer. He was born into a highly musical family, his father and grandfather, Alexander and Nikolai, being distinguished Russian composers, and his mother Ming a well-known pianist. His elder brother, Serge is also a composer. He studied with Leon Kirchner, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, and Pierre Boulez. After teaching briefly at both the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Stanford University, he became director of the [http://huseac.fas.harvard.edu/ Harvard University Electronic Music Studio] from 1972, remaining there until his death in 1998. The Tcherepnin legacy continues with two of Ivan's son's, Stefan and Sergei.

elected compositions

*"Fêtes (Variations on Happy Birthday)" (1975)
*"Le Va et le Vient" (1978)
*Santur Opera (1977)
*"Flores Musicales" (1980)
*Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra (1995) - winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:6179~T1 AllMusicGuide: Ivan Tcherepnin] by James Reel
* [http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=22 Art of the States: "Fêtes (Variations on Happy Birthday"]
* [http://www.tcherepnin.com/ Tcherepnin Society]
* [http://users.dialupnet.com/eldridge/tcherepnin/ Remembering Ivan Tcherepnin]


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