Author Archives: Eleanor Aversa

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I’m grateful to be awarded 10 hours of studio time with a Berklee Faculty Recording Grant! The grant provides the space, equipment, and faculty engineer, as well as a student assistant. The tracks with marimba will use the five-octave Marimba Continue reading recording grant→

Lately I’ve had some sheet music requests for Fortitudes, my piece “for brave solo oboe.” Oboes often play laments, but this piece is about a oboe who fights. My Bowdoin friend Amanda Talley, now of the New Mexico Philharmonic, made Continue reading for brave solo oboe→

Welcome to my updated website! This section is now for general news like commissions and audio releases. Please see Current Projects and Calendar for other news.

I’m delighted to be writing a new piece for Amuse, a women’s choir in NYC. There will be two concerts in late winter/ early spring– more details to come!

I’ve just received a Berklee Faculty Fellowship, which is awarded on a competitive basis to Boston- and Valencia-based faculty. My project is to compose an expanded arrangement of Victory at Arnot for sextet: flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello, and percussion. Continue reading Faculty Fellowship→

This fall I’ll be joining the faculty at Berklee College of Music as an Assistant Professor of Composition. I’m grateful to my colleagues, mentors, and students in Philadelphia over the past eight years (keep in touch!), and it’s sad to Continue reading Joining the faculty at Berklee→

I orchestrated the first track on the album, available here on Amazon. Check out the the Prague documentary here.

My new setting of The Darkling Thrush is now available here through NoteNova Publishing. This was my first commission from San Francisco Choral Artists, now available in SATB (the original is SSSAAATTTBBB). This new version is appropriate for choirs of Continue reading The Darkling Thrush available from NoteNova Publishing→

I am happy to announce that I will be composing a new work for members of the Momenta String Quartet: Emilie-Anne Gendron (violin), Stephanie Griffin (viola), and Michael Haas (cello). The concert will be May 29 at 8pm at the Continue reading New Work for members of the Momenta Quartet→