February 5
Ivan
AlexandrovichTcherepnin (February 5, 1943) was an experimental, then
latermodernist/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 Harvard University Electronic Music Studio from 1972, remaining there until
his death in 1998. The Tcherepnin legacy continues with two of Ivan's sons,
Stefan and Sergei.
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