Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols
Visiting Associate Professor |
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url: http://www.svjetlanamusic.com
bio: As one of the few, if not only, woman composer from Bosnia and Herzegovina working in the U.S. today, Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols draws upon the unique musical and cultural energies of both places. Described as “powerful and atmospheric…evocative of the sacred” (IAWM Journal) and “…an ecstatic musical experience, in its own dream sound-world”(Mark Greenfest of the New Music Connoisseur), her music has been presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the American Festival of Microtonal Music, The Inner Voices New Music Festival in Los Angeles, ASCAP’s Thru The Walls Series, The Knitting Factory, The Kitchen, LaMama, E.T.C., Cooper Union, Music With A View at the Flea Theater, and AMC theaters in New York City as well as a wide range of international venues such as The 15. International Review of Composers in Belgrade and the 2008 Beijing International Congress on Women in Music. She has been featured on the Voice of America international telecast and New York's MNN Public TV broadcasts. Her work in film has been nominated for Best Independent Feature at the 2006 Black Reel Awards for "Proud," which was an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival. She has received awards from the American Composers Forum, New England Foundation for the Arts, the Institute On The Arts And Civic Dialogue at Harvard University and the Soros Foundation, as well as ASCAP's Buddy Baker Film Scoring Scholarship and multiple ASCAPlus Awards. She holds a B.A. in musical Composition, a B.A. in Musicology from Sarajevo University's Academy of Music, and an M.F.A. in integrated electronic arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York - iEAR studios. |
