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Ian Guthrie
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Ian Guthrie
urrently based in the Kansas City area, Ian Evans Guthrie has received the Mile High Freedom Bands 2021 Commission, a nomination for a 2020 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1st prize for the Arcady Composition Competition, twice received 2nd prize for the American Prize, and other accolades for his compositions. Many of his works have been performed publicly around the world by fEARnoMUSIC, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, Dakota Valley Symphony, Erik Drescher, Del Sol String Quartet, and others, with works published by Verlag Neue Musik and T.U.X. People’s Music. He has served on various committees, including NACUSA, where he is the National Treasurer, and the Society of Composers, Inc., where he is the Marketer. His most recent works include choral works for various ensembles in the Kansas City area. As a pianist, Guthrie has won awards from MTNA, the Great Composer Competition, and others, and actively accompanies instrumentalists, vocalists, and dancers, most recently the Interlochen Center for the Arts and Kansas City Ballet School. He has studied composition with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Stephen Montague, Mark Wingate, Ladislav Kubik, and others, and piano with John Owings, Gloria Lin, Heidi Louise Williams, and Renato Fabbro.
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