Ivana Loudová is a Czech composer.

Loudová was born at Chlumec nad Cidlinou

Chlumec nad Cidlinou

Chlumec nad Cidlinou is a city of the Czech Republic in Bohemia, Hradec Králové Region.It is situated near Hradec Králové at the confluence of the rivers Cidlina and Bystřice. The town lies at an average height of 206 metres above sea level...

. She studied at the Prague Conservatory

Prague Conservatory

Prague Conservatory, sometimes also Prague Conservatoire, in Czech Pražská konzervatoř, is a Czech secondary school in Prague dedicated to teaching the arts of music and theater acting.- Instruction :...

 and the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts under Miloslav Kabeláč

Miloslav Kabelác

Miloslav Kabeláč was a prominent Czech composer and conductor. Miloslav Kabeláč belongs to the foremost Czech symphonists, whose work can be compared with Antonín Dvořák or Bohuslav Martinů...

 and Emil Hlobil

Emil Hlobil

Emil Hlobil was a twentieth century Czechoslovakian composer and music professor based in Prague.-Biography:Hlobil was born in Veselí nad Lužnicí, but lived most of his life in Prague...

. She later studied in Paris at the Centre Bourdan under Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

 and Andre Jolivet

André Jolivet

André Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times...

.
She has written orchestral and chamber music, as well as music for the voice and film/stage. She obtained an honourable mention in Mannheim

Mannheim

Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart....

 for the composition Rhapsody in Black, and won at the Guido d'Arezzo” International Polyphonic Competition in Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 in 1978, 1980 and 1984. In the choral area, she wrote the Vocal Symphony in 1965 and later wrote children's choral works such as the prize-winning Little Christmas Cantata. She has also written music for American Wind Symphony Orchestra

American Wind Symphony Orchestra

The American Wind Symphony Orchestra is an American musical ensemble comprising the wind instruments found in a symphony orchestra, which is dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music, and which is known for having commissioned over 400 new works...

and other orchestral works.
Since 1992 Ivana Loudová has taught composition on the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Prague.

External links

• Choral Music in the Twentieth Century, Nick Strimple (2005)
• The Harvard Dictionary of Music (2003) Don Michael Randel, p. 233
• The American Wind Band: A Cultural History (2005) Richard K. Hansen
• The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1995) By Julie Anne Sadie, Rhian Samuel
• Ivana Loudova