Eleanor Aversa composed a three-movement work for orchestra; her dissertation work for the University of Pennsylvania. Her orchestra piece "Hero's Welcome" won the 2010 Northridge Composition Prize.
Eleanor Aversa
Studios
Veltin
Eleanor Aversa worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…