Composer Eleanor Cory’s work has been recognized by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fromm Foundation of Harvard University, Aaron Copland Fund, Morse Grant of Yale University, and MacDowell. She has received an American Composers Alliance Recording Award, the Miriam Gideon Award from the International Association of Women in Music as well as numerous other prizes.
Cory’s music is recorded on three solo CDs: Chasing Time (2008), Of Mere Being (2002) and Images (1996) as well as additional recordings. Her work has been performed throughout the United States, England, the Soviet Union, Canada and Poland, and has been commissioned by the New Jersey Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Chamber Symphony of Princeton, Colonial Symphony, and many other ensembles. Cory studied at Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard Graduate School, New England Conservatory and Columbia University. She has taught at well-known universities and colleges and currently teaches at Mannes College of Music Prep Division and Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.
