Jean Eichelberger Ivey

Though her childhood was impacted by the Great Depression and her father's loss of his job as editor of the anti-feminist serial The Woman Patriot,[3] Jean Eichelberger won a full-tuition scholarship at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. where she graduated magna cum laude with her bachelor's degree in 1944.

[4] Subsequently, she earned master's degrees in piano performance from Peabody Conservatory and composition from the Eastman School of Music where she studied under Wayne Barlow, Kent Kennan, and Bernard Rogers.

Works composed by Ivey and her students within the studio's first full season were presented at New York's Carnegie Recital Hall, around Peabody, and on radio and television.

On her compositional ideals, Ivey wrote: "I consider all the musical resources of the past and present as being at the composer's disposal, but always in the service of the effective communication of humanistic ideas and intuitive emotion."

Jean Eichelberger Ivey battled this prejudice not only in the field of music but also in academia where women were less likely to be awarded tenure, foundation grants, performance opportunities, and commercial recordings.

Piano Music (Teaching Pieces): Magic Circles Modal Melodies (7) Parade (Duet) Pentatonic Sketches (5) Sleepy Time Tiny Twelve-Tone Tunes (5) Water Wheel

[6] Her many notable composition students include Michael Hedges, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Geoffrey Dorian Wright, Richard Dudas, McGregor Boyle, Vivian Adelberg Rudow, Lynn F. Kowal and Daniel Crozier.

Jean Eichelberger Ivey is seated in the front row third from the right; she is the sole woman in the seminar.
Jean Eichelberger Ivey is seated in the front row third from the right; she is the sole woman in the seminar. [ 1 ]