Elizabeth Gartman

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEPARTMENT - MUSIC
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Elizabeth Gartman is a composer, soprano, and educator currently based in New York City.  With compositions described as "refreshingly absurd" (The Washington Post) and "innovative" (Twin Cities Arts Reader), Elizabeth's work explores vocalism in its connection to the physical body. She considers her music to be an autonomous process in performance, centered on active listening and response. Elizabeth’s music has been commissioned by the Washington National Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, New Chamber Ballet, the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra, Guerilla Opera, InfraSound Ensemble, Ensemble Chemie, Pax Duo, the Why Collective, NYC Virtuoso Singers, confluss, Bronx Arts Ensemble, Experiments in Opera, and others. Accolades include selection as Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Women Opera Makers conference participant, winner of SOLI Chamber Ensemble’s 30x30x30 Call-for-scores, composer fellow with the American Opera Initiative, Honorable Mention for the Darmstadt Ferienkurse Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, the William Schuman Prize for Most Outstanding Score with BMI Student Composer Awards, and runner-up of Beth Morrison Projects’ Next Generation. Elizabeth is currently composer-in-residence at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in New York City. She holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Illinois. She serves as a faculty member at Kaufman Music Center's Special Music School, alongside her position at the Diller-Quaile School of Music.

(Headshot credit: Micah Gleason)