Elizabeth A. Kelly's works have been performed by orchestras, concert bands, choirs and chamber groups including the Ann Arbor Symphony, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, University of Illinois Chamber Orchestra, University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra and Concert Band, Yale Collegium Musicum, California EAR Unit and Ossia New Music Ensemble. Her compositions have been performed at venues throughout the U.S. and Europe including the Arcosanti, Bang on a Can, Bowdoin, Brevard, Cabrillo, CCM Music03, Ostrava Days, Fontainebleau American Conservatory, ImageMovementSound, Midwest Composers, Talloires Composers and Women in Music festivals. She has received commissions from the Ann Arbor Symphony, Eleanor and Ray Cross Foundation, Robert G. Boehmler Foundation, Ossia New Music Ensemble and Yale Collegium. Her double concerto for electric guitar, harpsichord and sinfonietta, Pluck, won a 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould award. Her concert band work, Jolt!, was recognized with an honorable mention in the 2006 ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell competition.
Kelly (b. 1982) is currently a Ph.D student in composition at the Eastman School of Music. She was awarded a Jacob K. Javits fellowship from the U.S. Dept. of Education as well as a Sproull fellowship from the University of Rochester for her doctoral studies. She holds an M.M. in composition from the University of Michigan School of Music, where she was awarded the Ellen Marin Memorial and full merit scholarships. She completed her B.A. in music summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction in the major at Yale, where she was recognized with an Abraham Beekman Cox Prize in composition. Principal teachers have included David Liptak, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Michael Daugherty, Betsy Jolas, Karen Tanaka, Kathryn Alexander, John Halle and Matthew Suttor.