Majoring in guitar, Gina Biver received her BA in Music from Berklee College of Music and a Masters Degree in Music Education with a Concentration in Composition from George Mason University.  She studied composition privately with composers Steve Antosca and Garrison Hull.

Her electronic composition Skating Still was chosen for the 2006 International 60X60 Project and was performed in New York, Sydney, and across Europe in 2007.  For the premiere of Train from her newest concert work Time Pieces, Gina was awarded a 2007 Composers Assistance Project Grant from the American Music Center.  Her work on Temporal Interference, a multimedia project in collaboration with artist Bryan Leister and choreographer Jane Franklin has been performed in Washington D.C., Denver, Colorado and Puebla, Mexico in 2008. She has composed several pieces of music for dance including In Hiding, a sixteen-minute electronic music composition created for Jane Franklin Dance, which was performed at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in May of 2007.

Since 1991, she has also scored music for television and film, where she has won Cine Golden Eagle, Tele and International Television and Video (ITVA) Awards.  In 2001 she scored the independent film Water Closet by director Aydem Erdem.  Over the years her music for film and television has been broadcast across the US and in thirteen Latin American countries.

Gina is currently the Composer Member and Director of Splash Ensemble, a new music/new media ensemble based in the Washington DC area that performs works by contemporary composers in collaboration with video, installation, dance, and other artists.  Splash recently premiered Gina’s Time Pieces (2007) at the Gildenhorn/Speisman Center for the Arts in Rockville, MD in October of 2007.  She lives in Falls Church, Virginia with her husband Steve and their three children. 

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