Ivana Marburger Themmen

Ivana Marburger Themmen (born April 7, 1935) is an American composer and pianist, whose Concerto for Guitar was a finalist in the 1982 Kennedy Center Friedheim Composition Competition.

Career

Themmen was born on April 7, 1935 in New York City, where she began studying piano at age 7. She attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where she met and married Harold B. Themmen. They had three children, Paris, Allegra, and Tania.

In addition to the New England Conservatory, Themmen studied in Europe, at the Eastman School of Music, and at the Tanglewood Music Center. Her teachers included Francis Judd Cooke, Nicolas Flagello, Lukas Foss, Carl McKinley, Jean Rosenblum, and Otto Schulhof. She corresponded with Eugene Ormandy.

Themmen taught at the Hampton Conservatory and also worked as an accompanist for the American Ballet Theatre. She received grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Queens Symphony, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Themmen belonged to the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA). Her music was published by Lyra Music Company and Cor Publishing Company/Wiltshire Music. Her compositions include:

Chamber music

  • Circles (flute, French horn and piano)
  • Concept V (clarinet and viola)
  • Concepts (two violas or clarinet and viola)
  • Duets (flute and bass clarinet)
  • Fanfares (three trumpets)
  • For Two Trombones
  • Green Willow: A Japanese Fairy Tale (narrator, chamber ensemble, and optional dancers)
  • Little Etudes (three trumpets)
  • Montages (harp)
  • Music for Friends, Perhaps (piano, clarinet, violin, viola and cello)
  • Piece (flute and piano)
  • Quintet (flute, clarinet, horn, violin and cello)
  • Sextet
  • Sonata (cello and piano)
  • Ten Cantos (two French horns)
  • Tetrachiron (piano four hands)
  • Wind Game (saxophone quartet)

Opera

  • Lucian (libretto by Norman Simon)

Orchestra

  • Concerto for Guitar
  • Concerto for Trombone
  • Cupid & Psyche (violin and orchestra)
  • Fasching
  • Triptych

Vocal


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