Eleanor Aversa | Composer

I’ve been named a Finalist for the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students. I am touched to have received a student nomination and honored that the committee has selected me from 300 nominations as one of 20 Finalists. It’s been almost a decade since I first stepped in front of a classroom, and reflecting back I’m grateful for all the wonderful teachers that I have had as role models, starting with my parents and my older sister.

Drunken Boat is an online journal of art and literature founded about a decade ago by Ravi Shankar (not that one, this one). The journal is named after the Rimbaud poem.

My essay What I Learned from the Russians is in this issue’s nonfiction section. Enjoy!

Faculty from the Monmouth Conservatory will be playing the opening movement of my second piano trio on their March 23rd new music concert. The performance will be at 7pm in the Middletown Library (main branch).

Something Gleamed Like Electrum will be performed again later this month, this time in New York City. The concert will be on Dec 21 at 7:30pm as part of the Music of Our Time series at the WMP (Workshop for New Music) Concert Hall. The performers are neoLIT and ticket info is here.

Juventas New Music Ensemble will be performing Something Gleamed Like Electrum at their upcoming December concert series.  The performances will take place on December 17th and 18th at The Boston Conservatory. Juventas is planning for at least one concert to be a multimedia experience involving local visual artists. Sculptor Charlotte McFarland will be creating an installation piece in response to Electrum that will be visible to the audience during the performance.

Baritone Randy Meder will be premiering The Lesson at the Evening of Miniatures performance at UW Green Bay on October 16th.