About Me
Hello! My name is Aivi, and I'm a composer, pianist, and game music lover. I started playing the piano when I was five, and since then I've picked up a BA in Music with honors, specializing in composition. My work is largely inspired by the videogames that I grew up with - I love stringing notes together to create worlds in which lovely and whimsical stories can happen.

I live in San Francisco and get up to all sorts of mischief, composing and arranging freelance, entertaining my YouTube fans as waltzforluma, and teaching piano.

I love collaborations, so for work or play, please get in touch!


Contact Me
Email: music at aivitran.com
Twitter: waltzforluma
YouTube: waltzforluma
Facebook: waltzforluma
Soundcloud: waltzforluma


Credits
Some things that I'm a part of...

Projects

+ aivi & surasshu: The Black Box (Composer/Arranger; Album, 2013)
+ Cryamore (Lead Composer; Game, in progress)
+ 1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum (Contributing Arranger; Game, 2012)
+ A'deo Chronicle Original Soundtrack (Contributing Composer; Album, 2012)
+ Rozen Maiden (Composer; Film, 2009)
+ Stanford University EPGY (Composer/Arranger; Educational, 2008)

Contributions

+ "Come Back" – FZ: Side Z (2013)
+ "Dreams of Home" – OverClocked Remix (2013)
+ "The Girl in the Nebula" – Preschtale Variations (2013)
+ "ShostakoV-Kick" – Break Blocks Original Mixtape (2012)
+ "Mink Car" – Mink Car Cover (2011)

Performances/Events

+ Original work featured in WTF: The Music of Waldo, Tran, and Front (2008)
+ Original work selected for Sonic Bloom, new music festival in California (2008)
+ Davis Multimedia Ensemble (2008)

Awards

+ Olga Brose Valencia Prize for Excellence in Musical Composition (2008)

Media/Press

+ Kotaku: Acoustic Piano Meets Chiptunes, And It's Freakin' Lovely (2013)
+ Videogame DJ: aivi & surasshu | The Black Box (2013)
+ Hi-Hi-Whoopee: Aivi & Surasshu // The Black Box (2013)
+ Urban Guitar SAYONARA: aivi & surasshu – The Black Box UBI060] (2013)
+ Destructoid: The Black Box: When chiptunes and piano collide (2013)
+ IndieGames.com: Audio Files: Aivi Tran and RPG Cryamore (2013)
+ Featured in Computer Music magazine: September 2012 issue (2012)
+ Original Sound Version: Break Blocks Original Mixtape (Review) (2012)
+ Destructoid: The beautiful piano arrangements of WaltzForLuma (2011)
+ The Multi-Purpose Video Game Music Blog: Interview: Composer and Pianist Aivi Tran (2011)