Ivana Marburger Themmen


Ivana Marburger Themmen 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. Tania is married to voice actress Susan Blu.
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. Her music was published by Lyra Music Company. and Cor Publishing Company/Wiltshire Music.

Discography

Chamber music

  • Circles
  • Concept V
  • Concepts
  • Duets
  • Fanfares
  • For Two Trombones
  • Green Willow: A Japanese Fairy Tale
  • Little Etudes
  • Montages
  • Music for Friends, Perhaps
  • Piece
  • Quintet
  • Sextet
  • Sonata
  • Ten Cantos
  • Tetrachiron
  • ''Wind Game''

Opera

  • ''Lucian''

Orchestra

  • Concerto for Guitar
  • Concerto for Trombone
  • Cupid & Psyche
  • Fasching
  • Triptych

Vocal

  • Magnificat
  • Mystic Trumpeter
  • "Ode to Akhmatova"
  • Requiem
  • Shelter this Candle from the Wind