Discipline: Music Composition

Elliot Borishansky

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Granville, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 1962, 1963, 1964
Elliot Borishansky (1930-2001) was an American composer. A native of New York, Borishansky was awarded the 1958 George Gershwin Memorial Award for his work Music for Orchestra that was subsequently performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. Among his original works that have been performed throughout the United States, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Australia, and Canada is Alma Mater Indelible, written for Denison University's Sesquicentennial celebration and performed there in 1989 by the Jupiter Symphony. His published compositions include music for clarinet, solo piano, trumpet, treble voices, and piano. He also wrote music and lyrics for several Columbus Junior Theatre productions and was an Artist in the Schools for the Greater Columbus Arts Council. His early studies included work at Queens College (B.A. 1951), Juilliard (1951-52), Columbia University (M.A. 1958), and the University of Michigan (D.M.A. 1970). His composition teachers included Jack Beeson and Otto Luening.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Elliot Borishansky worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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