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composer	Ivan Tcherepnin (1943-1998)
performers	Elaine Chew, piano
publisher	M. P. Belaieff (ASCAP)http://www.schott-music.com/shop/Sheet_Music/Belaieff/
recording	Live concert performance at New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, May 12, 2000
duration	12:57

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Ivan Tcherepnin (1943-1998) was perhaps best known as a highly creative teacher as well as for his innovations in live electronic music and multimedia. His works often featuring contrasting elements such as traditional and experimental techniques, and acoustic and electronic instruments.

Tcherepnin was born in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France to a very musical family; he received early training from his parents, composer-pianist Alexander Tcherepnin and pianist Ming Tcherepnin. He studied at Harvard University where his principal teacher was Leon Kirchner. After holding teaching positions at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Stanford University in California, Tcherepnin joined the music faculty of Harvard University in 1972, where he taught and served as director of the Harvard Electronic Music Studio until his death in 1998.

Tcherepnin performed on a number of instruments, including piano, psaltery, Persian santur, and synthesizers, many of which were designed by his brother Serge Tcherepnin. He conducted and lectured in Europe, Asia, and the US, and held composer residencies with the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, Dartington Summer Music School in the UK, Korsholm Music Festival in Finland, Music at Marlboro in Vermont, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico. His commissions included live electronic scores for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; Concerto for Two Continents, which he recorded in 1994 with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra; and And So It Came to Pass, an oratorio commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Oratorio Music Society at Carnegie Hall. Tcherepnin received awards from ASCAP, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, and in 1996, the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Prize for his Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (1995), commissioned and premiered by the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra with Lynn Chang and Yo-Yo Ma.

related websites
http://www.tcherepnin.com/ivan/bio_ivan.htm

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Pianist Elaine Chew has performed widely in her native country Singapore and in the greater Boston area. Her concerts have focused primarily on contemporary and Chinese piano music. She developed her dual careers as engineer and musician at Stanford University in California and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she received the Weisner Award for her contribution to the arts, and was Affiliated Artist of Music and Theatre Arts from 1998-2000. This past year, Chew's performances have been based mainly at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she was a visiting professor in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering. She is currently on faculty at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Integrated Media Systems Center. Her research interests include the use of optimization techniques to create mathematical models for music cognition.

related websites
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~echew