- Ivan Tcherepnin
Ivan Tcherepnin (born
February 5 ,1943 inIssy-les-Moulineaux ,France , diedApril 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 withLeon Kirchner ,Karlheinz Stockhausen ,Henri Pousseur , andPierre Boulez . After teaching briefly at both theSan Francisco Conservatory of Music andStanford 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
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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 theGrawemeyer 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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