HARRISON, Ellen Ruth

Ellen Harrison has won two commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation and four Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. Her music has received additional honors and awards from organizations such as the American Guild of Organists, the IBLA European International Music Foundation, the International League of Women Composers, the Jacob K. Javits Foundation, the Rebecca Clarke Society, SPECTRI SONORI, and UC Berkeley. Her music has been described as “stunning” and full of “sophisticated ensemble writing“ (The San Francisco Chronicle). Her chamber music often has “a very, very quick series of contrasting moods and atmospheres, which gives it a lot of texture and beauty, and it has a deep sonic realm.” (Boston Globe).