Niloufar Iravani

Iranian-American composer of classical and electro-acoustic music The music of Niloufar Iravani has been performed nationally and internationally by recognized ensembles and soloists and presented in professional festivals and conferences in the US and around the world. She has been awarded a $15000 commission by 2019 Women Composers Readings and Commissions (Toulmin ‎Commission) and 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 annual String Quartet Smackdown and the American Society of Composers, ‎Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation’s 2018 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. She has also served as an adjudicator for the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference and as a reviewer for the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). Iravani has received commissions from acclaimed musicians, ensembles, and associations and ‎published several of her works by Conners Publications. 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.