Niloufar Iravani has been selected as the 2019 Louisiana Music Teacher Association (LMTA) Commissioned Composer, first prize winner of the Southeastern Composers League’s (SCL) 2018 Philip Slates Memorial Competition, and third prize winner of the 2020 Darkwater Women in Music Festival Composition Competition. In addition to being selected in the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) EarShot 2018 Readings, she was a finalist in the fifth and seventh String Quartet Smackdown and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation’s 2018 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.
Iravani has received commissions from acclaimed musicians, ensembles, and associations including a commission by 2019 Women Composers Readings and Commissions (Toulmin Commission), an initiative of the League of American Orchestras (LAO) in partnership with the American Composer Orchestra (ACO) and supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. She has published several of her works by Conners Publications and served as an adjudicator for Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference and a reviewer for International Computer Music Conference (ICMC).
Iravani’s music has been performed at distinguished venues by well-recognized soloists and ensembles including Constanta Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Sinfonietta, and Invoke String Quartet. Her works have also been presented at prominent festivals and conferences such as League of American Orchestras 75th National Conference, Earth Day Art Model Telematic Festival, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2018 National Conference, Cube Festival 2018, 2nd and 3rd Music by Women Festival, and 2017 University of Tennessee Contemporary Music Festival.
She received a B.A. in Piano Performance and M.A. in Music Composition from the University of Tehran, Iran, and an M.M. and Ph.D. in Music Composition under the supervision of Dr. Dinos Constantinides from Louisiana State University, USA.
