Cherepnin, Ivan Aleksandrovich

Cherepnin [Chiripnéen] (Tcherepnin, Tscherepnine), Ivan Aleksandrovich (2–5–1943, Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris). Son of A. Cherepnin, brother of S. Cherepnin, and grandson of N. Cherepnin. After studying piano with his mother and composition with his father (sometimes at the Academie Internationale de Musique at Nice), Ivan Cherepnin followed his family to the United States. At Harvard he studied with Leon Kirchner and Randall Thompson, and he completed work toward his B.A. in 1964…