CHERRY, Ellie

Ellie Cherry is an American composer and sound artist from Utah, working primarily with acoustic, electronic, and electroacoustic music. She studied music at Cornell University, graduating magna cum laude in 2019, and later completed an MMus in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Composition at Princeton University, where her work explores field recordings, disappearing soundscapes, improvisation, psychoacoustics, and the relationship between reality and perception. Cornell Music
Her works include the opera-oratorio Queen of Carthage, Boiling Frog, Night Circuits, Fractured, Shattered, Filigreed, The Butterfly Effect and I am You are Who?. Queen of Carthage received a Cornell CCA grant in 2019, while Boiling Frog was selected for performance by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 2022.