Discipline: Music Composition

Nancy Van de Vate

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Vienna, AUSTRIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987
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Nancy Van de Vate was born in Plainfield, NJ. She studied piano at Eastman School of Music and music theory at Wellesley College and completed graduated degrees in music composition at the University of Mississippi and Florida State University. She later pursued further studies in electronic music at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire and is known worldwide for her music in the large forms. In 1975, Van de Vate founded the League of Women Composers (later renamed the International League of Women Composers, now part of the International Alliance for Women in Music). Van de Vate now lives permanently in Vienna, Austria and teaches composition at the Institute for European Studies in Vienna. In 2010 the IES named her Composer-in-Residence.

Studios

Irving Fine

Nancy Van de Vate worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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