Discipline: Music Composition

Elizabeth Kelly

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Sea Island, GA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013, 2017

Elizabeth Kelly is an American composer currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. She worked on a theatrical piece for percussion inspired by internet communication. Her compositions have been commissioned and performed by diverse ensembles at venues from Carnegie Hall to the Huddersfield Festival in the United Kingdom.

Studios

Irving Fine

Elizabeth Kelly worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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