Background
Ivey, Jean Eichelberger was born on July 3, 1923 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Joseph S. and Elizabeth (Pfeffer) Eichelberger.
Ivey, Jean Eichelberger was born on July 3, 1923 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Joseph S. and Elizabeth (Pfeffer) Eichelberger.
AB magna cum laude, Trinity College, 1944. Master of Music in Piano, Peabody Conservatory, 1946. Master of Music in Composition, Eastman School Music, University Rochester, 1956.
Doctor of Music, University Toronto, 1972.
She founded the Peabody Electronic Music Studio in 1912, and taught composition and electronic music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music until her retirement. Her publishers include Boosey and Hawkes, Carl Fischer, Incorporated. and East.C. Schirmer. Ivey is listed in such reference works as the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Who"s Who in America.
She is also the subject of a half-hour documentary film prepared in Washington: A Woman Is.. a Composer.
She has expressed her compositional ideals as follows: "I consider all the musical resources of the past and present as being at the composer"s disposal, but always in the service of the effective communication of humanistic ideas and intuitive emotion."
Her many notable composition students include Michael Hedges, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Geoffrey Dorian Wright, Richard Dudas, McGregor Boyle, Vivian Adelberg Rudow, and Daniel Crozier.
Member American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (annual awards since 1972), American Society University Composers (editornewsletter 1968-1970), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Alpha Iota (composer-judge).