Jonathan Elliot born in 1962 in Philadelphia Jonathan Elliott began piano studies at age six. He was a scholarship student at Vassar College, where he studied piano with Todd Crow and composition with Annea Lockwood. He received his AM and PhD in Composition from the University of Chicago, where he was a fellowship student of the late Ralph Shapey and Shulamit Ran. He has written over eighty compositions in a wide range of media. He has received awards, fellowships, commissions and prizes by ASCAP, BMI, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the International Festival of New Music at Darmstadt, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Youth Symphony, the Jerome Foundation, American Composers Forum, New York State Council on the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, Centre Acanthe (Paris), and others. His work has been commissioned and performed by some of today's leading concert artists and has been recorded on Koch International Classics and Centaur Records. Paul Griffiths of the NEW YORK TIMES called his work "...excellent...darkly and lusciously scored...haunting and ethereal." His music has been broadcast on National Public Radio and on the Arts and Entertainment Television Network. Jonathan Elliott has taught at Vassar College, the University of Chicago, Bard College, and is currently composer in residence at Saint Ann's School in New York City. He has been a President's Visiting Artist at the University of Florida School of Music, and given lectures and performances of his work at a number of colleges and universities. He has lived in New York City since 1988. http://www.jonathanelliott.org

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