Vera Nicolaevna Preobrajenska

Vera Nicolaevna Preobrajenska (27 Apr 1926 - 25 Jun 2011) was a Russian American arranger, composer, music educator, and writer. She composed in many genres, including ballet and opera.

Preobrajenska was born in San Francisco, California, to Tatiana N. Kasperovich and Nicholas A. Preobrajenska. She studied composition with Ernest Bloch, Ernest von Dohnanyi, Frederick Jacobi, Darius Milhaud, Dmitri Shostakovich, Roger Sessions, and Alexander Tcherepnin. Her educational background and job history included:

[no date] AA from University of California, Berkeley Her music was published by the American Music Center and Belwin (today part of Alfred Music).

Works Her works include:

Ballets

Clara Militch (piano) Sonata in Three Movements (flute) String Quartets (three)

Operas

The Money Lender

Orchestral music

Blue Symphony

Third Symphony

Organ music Fugue in a minor Preludium

Piano musicEtudes I, II, and III Sonata Prose

poems in Ram Magazine Song Writers Course, Parts I and II''

Vocal music

Cycle of English Art Songs

Cycle of Russian Art Songs

Easter Prayer (mixed chorus)

Hebraic Cantata (mixed chorus and chamber orchestra)

Ode to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address