Elliott Miles McKinley is an American composer who draws influences from a diverse array of musical styles. He lives in the Boston area and is professor of music at Roger Williams University.
While at MacDowell, McKinley worked on a revision of a 2022 work titled Pale Blue Dot for bass clarinet, marimba, and string quartet. The work will be premiered in its new version during the 2025-26 concert season and recorded for a future album release. He also worked on sketches and drafts for a new, large-scale work for solo piano.
Studios
Chapman
Elliott McKinley worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman
Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her
husband, composer George Alexander Chapman.
Symmetrically
massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural,
unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of
slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central,
peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…
