Charles Ives Scholarship: Eli Marshall

At the age of 16, Eli Marshall left high school to study at Simon's Rock College, and also studied composition at Bard College. The American Symphony Orchestra premiered his Song and Dance in 1998. He has written several works for the Da Capo Chamber Players. He has been in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and has studied at the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Institute. Richard Cornell, Daron Hagen, Ezra Laderman, Joan Tower, and George Tsontakis have been his composition teachers. Having recently completed one year of graduate work at Yale University, he is on leave from that school, and is now studying at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ned Rorem.