ArtistInfo

Elliott Schwartz

key, p, *1936 US, New York City
Composer of Classical and Electronic

Elliott Schwartz (born January 19, 1936) is an American composer. A graduate of Columbia University, he was Beckwith Professor Emeritus of music at Bowdoin College joining the faculty in 1964. In 2006, the Library of Congress acquired his papers to make them part of their permanent collection.He has held visiting residencies and fellowships at the University of California (Santa Barbara and San Diego), Ohio State University, Harvard University, Tufts University, Cambridge and Oxford Universities (UK), and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center (Bellagio, Italy).

Instruments

• Keyboards
• Piano

Genres

• Classical
• Electronic
• Jazz
• Rock
• Folk