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Igor Iwanek was born in Lódz, Poland, in 1981. For the last eight years he has lived in Boston, USA where he completed his BM in Composition in 2008 at The Boston Conservatory. In the fall of 2008 his music for piano, left hand alone won a special prize at the Second International Paderewski Composition Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He is the winner of the Kaji Aso composition prize and the recipient of the Roger Sessions Memorial Composition Award. In 2008 he was also awarded the Williamson Foundation of Music Award. He is the finalist of 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Competition. Iwanek received the 2007 Emerging Artist of New England Award from The Saint Botolph Club Foundation. He was the winner of The 2007 Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble Composition Competition. In May 2007 Iwanek was admitted to the prestigious PI KAPPA LAMBDA – National Music Honors Society. He is the recipient of Fontainebleau Ecole d’Arts Americaines and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst grants. His composition teachers include Samuel Adler, Robert Beaser, Alain Gaussin, Francois Paris, Jan Swafford, Andy Vores and Dalit Warshaw. He has been studying piano under Marina Magazinnik. In addition to composing he is an active proponent of music for piano, left hand alone. |