Ivana Loudová

Ivana Loudová studied composition at the Prague Conservatory and at the Academy of Performing Arts with Miloslav Kabeláč (1958–1961 and 1968–1971) and Emil Hlobil (1961–1966).

Thanks to a scholarship awarded to her by the French government, she studied in Paris in 1971 under Olivier Messiaen and André Jolivet. She also took part in an internship led by Pierre Schaeffer in the Centre Pourdan studio at ORTF.

After 1972 she became a freelance composer, writing for the radio, the theatre, and the television. In the years 1980 and 1997 she underwent an internship at the American Wind Symphony Orchestra in the USA. She led composition courses in the USA, Germany, and Austria.

Since 1992 she has been teaching composition and music theory at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague where she is also in charge of the Studio N – a studio for contemporary music. Her compositions have been awarded many times, both home and abroad.

For instance, in 1978 she won the 1st prize in the International Composers’ Competition “Guido d’Arezzo” in Italy for her Sonetto per voci bianchi for children’s choir and orchestra, and in 1980 one of her works was awarded a prize for the most successful composition within the 1st International Interpretation Competition in the field of music for percussion in Pittsburgh, the USA. In the year 1993 she received the Heidelberg Art Prize for her existing production. She is the author of a theoretical treatise called Modern Notation and Its Interpretation (Moderní notace a její interpretace). In her production she applies modality and techniques of the so called New Music.

She focuses mainly on chamber, symphonic, and choral compositions. A substantial part of her output is also represented by her works for children.

Titles for sale:
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Sonata for Violin and Piano