Eleanor Aversa | Composer

Residency at I-Park

Eleanor Aversa — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:20:27 +0000

I will be the composer-in-residence for the May/June session at the I-Park Foundation. I-Park is a fully-funded, 450-acre woodland artist retreat/residency program in rural East Haddam, Connecticut. Each session hosts six artists selected from the fields of visual arts, creative writing, music composition/sound sculpture, and moving image.

I will be using my residency to compose a work for flute choir to be premiered by Penn Flutes in Spring 2013.

Performance with members of the Daedalus Quartet

Eleanor Aversa — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:41:34 +0000

What’s better for a composer than having amazing players perform her music? Performing alongside them.

On Sunday, March 25 I will be joining Min-Young Kim and Thomas Kraines of the Daedalus String Quartet in the Scherzo movement of my second piano trio. Coincidentally, I’ll be playing on the same Steinway in the same room where I composed the piece two years ago! The concert will feature the Daedalus musicians performing a variety of classical repertoire both as a quartet and with other musicians from the Penn music department. Repertoire includes Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky.

The concert is at 3pm in Rose Recital Hall, 4th floor of the Fisher-Bennett Building (34th and Walnut). Admission is free.

SGLE West Coast Premiere

Eleanor Aversa — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:35:43 +0000

Tigran Arakelyan will be conducting Something Gleamed Like Electrum at California State University Northridge on April 23. This will be the fourth ensemble to perform the piece and the first to perform it on the West Coast.

Piano Trio #2, NYC premiere

Eleanor Aversa — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:23:18 +0000

New York-based chamber group neoLIT will be performing selections from my second piano trio at the Workshop for Music Performance Concert Hall:

Friday, January 20th @ 7:30pm

Music of Our Time presents: neoLIT Ensemble with flutist Martha Cargo, clarinetist Erin Svoboda, violinist Nadya Meykson, cellist Aminda Asher and pianist Katya Mihailova

Works by Borzova, Goldberg, Aversa, Schoenfield, Bond

Admission: $20, $10 (students)

ASCAPLUS award

Eleanor Aversa — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:07:04 +0000

I am honored to have received a 2011-2012 ASCAPLUS Award, a financial award given by ASCAP recognizing “artists in the early and mid stages of their careers” for “creative contributions to American music this past year.”

In Flight abroad

Eleanor Aversa — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:12:57 +0000

My electroacoustic piece In Flight will be one of the works showcased in the Sound Walk Project at the Belém Art Centre in Lisbon during the 2011 Música Viva Festival, from the 9th until the 14th of September. I am honored that my piece was among one of 25 chosen out of 149 submissions from more than 30 countries.

Northeast, Northwest

Eleanor Aversa — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:47:07 +0000

Greetings from Maine! The faculty here at the Bowdoin International Music Festival will be performing the scherzo from my second piano trio as part of the Artists of Tomorrow Series. The concert will be on August 5 (time TBA); the performers are Peter Basquin (piano), Yang Xu (violin), and David Requiro (cello).

I’ve also just learned that my work In Flight has been selected for inclusion in the Electrogals 2011 Festival at the Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center in Portland, Oregon. The festival features electronic music from women around the world.

Hero’s Welcome premiere

Eleanor Aversa — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:24:10 +0000

On May 6, I had the thrill and the honor of hearing my orchestral music in concert performance. The CSUN Symphony, under the direction of Dr. John Roscigno, did a smashing job. The full recording is available from my Catalog page.

MacDowell Residency

Eleanor Aversa — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:33:02 +0000

In August I will begin a four-week residency at the MacDowell Colony. I cannot think of a more ideal place to begin composing my dissertation.

MacDowell is the oldest artists’ colony in the country, founded 1906 by the widow of composer Edward MacDowell. I’ll be working among writers, visual artists, filmmakers, playwrights, interdisciplinary artists, and architects from around the world.

Scholarship to The Bowdoin International Music Festival

Eleanor Aversa — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:37:20 +0000

This summer I will be attending the Bowdoin International Music Festival on a Resident Assistant Scholarship. I’m looking forward to studying with Derek Bermel and Robert Beaser, and I’m also grateful for the privilege of living with great instrumentalists for six weeks. Few things are more inspiring than composing for people you know and like!