Ivana Marburger Themmen

Ivana Marburger Themmen (born April 7, 1935) is an American composer and pianist, whose Concerto for Guitar was a finalist in the 1982 Kennedy Center Friedheim Composition Competition.

Career Themmen was born on April 7, 1935, in New York City, where she began studying piano at age 7. She attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where she met and married Harold B. Themmen. They had three children, Paris, Allegra, and Tania. Tania is married to voice actress Susan Blu.

In addition to the New England Conservatory, Themmen studied in Europe, at the Eastman School of Music, and at the Tanglewood Music Center. Her teachers included Francis Judd Cooke, Nicolas Flagello, Lukas Foss, Carl McKinley, Jean Rosenblum, and Otto Schulhof.

Themmen taught at the Hampton Conservatory and also worked as an accompanist for the American Ballet Theatre. She has received grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Queens Symphony, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Her music is published by Lyra Music Company.

Discography Chamber music Circles (flute, French horn and piano) Concept V (clarinet and viola) Tetrachiron (piano four hands)

Orchestra Concerto for Guitar Fasching Requiem (chorus and orchestra) Shelter this Candle from the Wind (soprano and orchestra; text by Edna St. Vincent Millay)