“San Francisco Symphony has launched a concert series that may well be unique in the history of music. . . The SFS 1:1 Concerts feature live performances of one musician playing for one audience member, both with facemasks (except for woodwinds, naturally), and outside Davies Symphony Hall. . . Programs ranged from Bach Cello Suites to Hindemith’s 8 Pieces for Solo Flute, Malcolm Arnold’s Fantasy for Trombone, and the world premiere of FortEtude #3, a new work for solo viola by Eleanor Aversa” – San Francisco Classical Voice, 7/21/20 – full article
“Irish-born Mary ‘Mother’ Jones, one of America’s most famous labor activists, is the subject of a production featuring Tony nominee Maureen Brennan, with a score by Berklee College of Music faculty member Eleanor Aversa, to be presented this month at the Irish Cultural Centre of New England and at Berklee.” Boston Irish Times, 3/1/18 – full article
“Perhaps the strongest portion of a solid first half was the subsection ‘Patterns.’ It consisted of three whimsical pieces, including the premiere of Composer-Not-in-Residence Eleanor Aversa’s lustrous Probably Helical. Aversa set portions of DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin’s articles to lush harmonies.” – San Francisco Classical Voice, 3/2/13 – full article
Interview, San Francisco Choral Artists website, 2/27/13 – full interview
“Aversa’s string quartet, Movement, was a clear crowd-pleaser, with an ethereal tonality that floated along a pizzicato pulse.” –Society for New Music Newsletter, 10/08 – full article
“The shimmering curls and flutters of Eleanor Aversa’s ‘Something Gleamed Like Electrum’ lived up to the title.” – New York Times, 6/9/08 – full article