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Composer-Pianist-Sound Designer
Jonathan
Elliott, a native of Philadelphia, is a composer, pianist and sound designer. His music has been heard internationally in
concert and broadcasts at venues large and small. He has received numerous awards and honors for his music, including
fellowships from the MacDowell Colony,Yaddo, the Ragdale Foundation, the New State Council on the Arts, the International
Festival of New Music at Darmstadt, Centre Acanthes, the Aspen Music Festival, and the W.K. Rose Trust. He has won prizes
from BMI, ASCAP, the Chicago Symphony, the American Composers Forum, Forum 91/UNESCO, and has been a nominee for the American
Academy of Arts and Letters music awards. He has been a visiting artist at Bard College, Vassar College, Queens College
CUNY, and the University of Florida. He has been commissioned by leading concert artists and presenting organizations including
PS122, the Poetry Project at Saint Marks, the American Liszt Society, American Composers Forum, the Monadnock Music Festival,
and the Center for Experimental Theater at Vassar College. His music is published by Lux Nova Press and PBP Music and recorded
on Koch International Classics and Centaur Records. He has lived in Brooklyn, NY, since 1988. He performs frequently as a
jazz pianist and is head of the music department music at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights.
contact: je@jonathanelliott.org
now playing: "hommage à b.b." courtesy of Koch International Classics
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