Jonathan Elliott is an American composer and teacher who grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, studying piano from the age of six. He would go on to study composition at Vassar College, where his teachers included Annea Lockwood and the pianist Todd Crow; Elliott subsequently received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Ralph Shapey and Shulamit Ran. Currently composer in residence at Saint Ann's School, in Brooklyn, New York, where he has taught since 1988, Elliott previously has taught at Chicago, Vassar, and Bard College. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, the American Composers Forum, and MacDowell, and has been in residence at institutions such as the University of Florida. Elliott's compositions have been performed at venues and institutions such as the Aspen Music Festival, Temple University, the World Saxophone Congress, UC Davis, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Hartford Hartt School, Symphony Space, and the University of St Andrews.
Jonathan Elliott
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Jonathan Elliott worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…