2023 Music GPS Level 3

• Founder/Executive Director/CEO, Ballet Vero Beach, Vero Beach, Florida
• Trained at Walnut Hill School for the Arts and danced professionally throughout the United States and abroad
• Member of the Thomas Jefferson High School Alumni "Hall of Fame"
• Contributor/Supporter of the Arts Council
• M.S., Arts Administration, Drexel University; B.A. with a double major in Arts Management and Dance Education, SUNY Empire State College, Saratoga Springs, New York

• Founder & Principle, Duvin Collaboratives, Miami, Florida
• Former Vice President of Advancement & Community Engagement, Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Miami

• Former development positions with the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy, a leading cultural organization that prepares graduates of music programs for leadership roles in professional orchestras and ensembles.
• A classically trained pianist, Iva immigrated to the US from Croatia at the age of 17 and studied piano performance at the University of Miami and Florida International University under the tutelage of Ivan Davis and Kemal Gekic.
• M.M. in Performing Arts Management and B.M. in Classical Piano Performance, Florida International University, Miami

•  Executive Director, Greater Miami Youth Symphony, Miami, Florida

•  Current faculty consultant with the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA.

•  Previous experience as the Education Director for professional orchestras in North Carolina and Florida.

•  Created successful Arts Education, Youth Orchestra and El Sistema inspired programs throughout the Southeast.

•  M.A., Arts Administration, Savannah College of Art and Design; B.A., Music Education, University of South Carolina 

• Executive Consultant for Non Profit and For Profit Cultural Sector

• Former Executive Director, Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach
• Founding President and CEO, Classical South Florida Public Radio Station
• Executive Director, The Fashion Scholarship Fund
• Previous positions include: CEO, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts; CEO, Stamford Center for the Performing Arts; President, Broadway China Ventures, Beijing and Shanghai
• Founding Member, Connecticut Advocates for the Arts; Member of the Broadway League; Member of ISPAA

• Assistant Professor of Composition, Florida State University, College of Music, Tallahassee, Florida
• Former Resident Composer at the Washington National Opera and American Lyric Theater
• Rome Prize finalist (2019); ASCAP Morton Gould Award winner (2020); Horatio Parker Memorial Prize at Yale School of Music (2017); American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives scholarship recipient (2016)
• Recipient of grants from Opera America, New MusicUSA, National Endowment of the Arts, as well as, fellowships from Aspen, Norfolk, and CULTIVATE Music Festivals
• M.M. and D.M.A. in Music Composition from Yale University, School of Music, New Haven, Connecticut