Honors & Awards

• Commission. Mountains, give me your body for woman choir. Cantemus Choir (Moldova), 2014
• Commission. From old times fantasy for folk ensemble. Flueras ensemble, 2013
• Commission. Ca la Breaza – dance for clarinet quartet. The Forward Four Clarinet Quartet , 2013
• Commission. Rural Sketches for Marimba and Bass Ensemble. Chicago Bass Ensemble and Matthew Coley, 2013
• Commission award. Utah Buddhist Festival, 2012
• Commission award. Intermezzo Chamber Music Series, 2009
• Honorable mention. Minnesota Symphony Orchestra composers competition, 2007
• Honorable mention. International Fauxharmonic Digital Orchestra Composers Competition, 2006
• Utah Arts Festival orchestral commission. Utah Arts Festival, 2005
• Leroy Robertson Prize. University of Utah, 2004
• The National Award of the Municipal Youth Prize in the Domain of Science, Technology, Literature and Arts for Descântece for mixed choir. National Award of the Municipal Youth Prize, 2003
• Wayne Peterson Prize in Music Composition. Wayne Peterson Prize, 2003
• First prize in composition. Silver Chrysanthemum National Composition Competition, 1996
• First prize in cimbalom performance. "Barbu Lautaru" National competition, 1994

Affiliations

• Union of Composers of Moldova (UCM), Promote and support of Moldavian composers, 09/2002 - present

In the Media

• CD release by Vegas Records - "Country Bridges". Collection of 12 Old Time Fiddle tunes arranged for violin and cimbalom. 2020. https://igoriamchimciucvaleriglava.bandcamp.com/
• Leopard's Path released on CD Baby label . 2017. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/igoriachimciuc2
• Mountains, give me a body for woman choir: July 9 2017 at National Philharmonics of Moldova; Concert of CANTEMUS choir in L'Auditori de Barcelona sala Pau Casals (Spain) July 25th; 2017 Segizzi 56th International Choir Competition 1st prize in Category Romantic/Contemporary music. 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz1jNq7AOCk
• Sonata for clarinet and piano; performed at Utah Arts Festival by Henry Caceres and Jed Moss. 2017.
• Old Suite for cello solo; Premiered by Noriko Kishi at Urban Arts Gallery. 2017.
• 12 snapshots for cello and two percussion; Premiered by Noriko Kishi, and Eric Hopkins at Urban Arts Gallery. 2017.
• Eight pieces for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello; Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City. 2015.
• 2015 Intermezzo Chamber Music Series; Margins for taraf quartet. 2015.
• 2015 Utah Arts Festival; Suite for low instruments. 2015.
• Two preludes for flute, viola and harp; Salty Crickets Composers Collective. 2014. http://utahculturalalliance.org/2014/09/24/utah-co...
• CD release. Concertino band. Concert suite. 2014. http://www.ame-lyss.ch/cd%20concertino%2010%20YEAR...
• CD release. Centaur Records, includes Fishing Day duo. 2014. http://news.nau.edu/unlikely-duo-hits-musical-high...
• Through Flowers for marimba solo; Sonic Inertia Publications. 2014. https://squareup.com/market/sonic-inertia-publicat...
• CD release. CD Baby. Dialogue album. Pieces for cimbalom and accordion duo. 2012. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/igoriachimciuc
• Descântece (Spells), a cycle for mixed choir (five movements); performed by Chamber Choir of Organ Hall of the Moldova . 2011.
• Hills and Valleys, trio for violin, clarinet, and piano; performed at TTU School of Music. 2011.
• Quartet in C for strings (four movements); presented at the master class with Kronos quartet at the University of Utah. 2011.
• In John’s Garden, cycle for the clarinet and piano; performed at 2011 Days of New Music International Festival in June 2011 by Alexander and Svetlana Danilov. 2011.
• Concert Suite for solo cimbalom; included as obligatory piece at 9th International Dulcimer Festival in Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic (May 2011). 2011.
• Malanca for brass quintet; performed at 2011 USM New Music Festival by the UCM Faculty Brass Quintet. 2011.
• Descântece (Spells), a cycle for mixed choir (five movements); chosen as subject for the Master Thesis “Spells by Igor Iachimciuc – particularities of the composition and dramaturgy” by Natalia Chiciuc, Academy of Music, Theater, and Fine Arts, Chisinau, Moldova. 2011.