Ellis Bonoff Kohs (5/12/1916-5/17/2000) was an American composer, textbook author, and professor who was born in Chicago, IL. He studied at the San Francisco Conservatory, the Institute of Musical Art in New York, the University of Chicago, Julliard School, and Harvard University. Kohs conducted the Army and Air Force bands before going on to teach composition at Wesleyan University and then Kansas City Conservatory. He also taught at College of the Pacific, Stanford University, and the University of Southern California. He composed many pieces including operas, orchestral works, vocal works, and chamber music. He also wrote several music theory textbooks.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Ellis Bonoff Kohs
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1957, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1980, 1984
Studios
Veltin
Ellis Bonoff Kohs 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…