Elliot Cole
Elliot Cole (*1984) is a composer and "charismatic contemporary bard" (NY Times). He has written for and performed with Grammy winners Roomful of Teeth, Grammy nominees A Far Cry and Metropolis Ensemble, and many other ensembles. His percussion music evokes "sparkling icicles of sound" (Rolling Stone) and has been performed by over 250 groups all over the world. Dr. Cole is currently on faculty at the The New School and Juilliard Evening Division, and is Program Director of Musicambia at Sing Sing, where he runs a music school for incarcerated men. He has a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University. In addition to work in modern, early, electronic, and computer music, he studies Hindustani singing with Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan.
https://elliotcolemusic.com/
Photo credit Da Ping Luo.
Visiting artist at Arts Letters & Numbers, Creative Music Intensive 2022, Creative Music Intensive 2023
