Jonathan Elliott

{{short description|American composer and teacher|bot=PearBOT 5}}

Jonathan Elliott is an American composer and teacher.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/25/movies/music-review-unwrapping-gifts-of-holiday-songs-under-a-met-tree.html|title=MUSIC REVIEW; Unwrapping Gifts of Holiday Songs Under a Met Tree|last=Griffiths|first=Paul|date=1998-12-25|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-02-27|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Born in 1962, Elliott grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, studying piano from the age of six. He went on to study composition at Vassar College, where his teachers included Annea Lockwood and the pianist Todd Crow; Elliott subsequently received his PhD from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Ralph Shapey and Shulamit Ran.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugfWDQAAQBAJ&q=jonathan+elliott+composer&pg=PA153|title=Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students|last=Pfitzinger|first=Scott|date=2017-03-01|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442272255|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://music.vassar.edu/after-vassar/|title=After Vassar - Music Department - Vassar College|website=music.vassar.edu|access-date=2019-05-30}} He received two Broadcast Music, Inc. Student Composer awards in 1985 and 1987.{{Cite web |title=Genres: BMI Student Composer Award Winners |url=https://www.bmi.com/genres/entry/bmi_student_composer_award_winners |access-date=2019-05-30 |website=BMI.com |language=en}}

Elliott is currently composer in residence at Saint Ann's School, in Brooklyn, New York, where he has taught since 1988. He previously taught at Chicago, Vassar, and Bard College. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, the American Composers Forum, and the MacDowell Colony (1989, 1990), and has been in residence at institutions such as the University of Florida.{{Cite web|url=https://vq.vassar.edu/issues/2000/03/features/composers.html|title=Three Young Composers - Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly|website=vq.vassar.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-02-27}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/08/arts/music-notes-facelift-for-a-valued-hall.html|title=Music Notes; Facelift for a Valued Hall|last=Page|first=Tim|date=1986-06-08|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-02|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.yaddo.org/artists/artist-guests/composers/|title=Composers|date=2016-09-11|work=Yaddo|access-date=2018-03-22|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists/jonathan-elliott|title=Jonathan Elliott - Artist|website=MacDowell Colony|language=en|access-date=2019-12-07}}

Elliott's compositions have been performed at venues and institutions such as the Aspen Music Festival, Columbia University, Temple University, the World Saxophone Congress, UC Davis, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Hartford Hartt School, Penn State Hazleton, Symphony Space, University of the Witwatersrand, Montclair State University, Bridgewater State University, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and the University of St Andrews.{{Cite news|url=https://www.symphonyspace.org/event/8985/Music/nyc-composers-by-duo-montagnard|title=NYC Composers, by Duo Montagnard at Symphony Space|access-date=2018-03-02|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://news.psu.edu/story/557012/2019/02/01/arts-and-entertainment/chamber-music-concert-set-feb-11-penn-state-hazleton|title=Chamber music concert set for Feb. 11 at Penn State Hazleton {{!}} Penn State University|website=news.psu.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.standardspeaker.com/news/duo-entertains-ghost-style-1.2445124|title=Duo entertains, ghost style|last=JACKSON|first=KENT|website=www.standardspeaker.com|date=13 February 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-30}}{{Cite web|url=https://travel.duke.edu/events/saxophone-guitar-masterclass-duo-montagnard|title=Saxophone & Guitar Masterclass with Duo Montagnard {{!}} Global Administrative and Travel Support {{!}} Duke|website=travel.duke.edu|access-date=2019-05-30}}