The music of Ellen Lindquist is performed regularly throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe (Sweden, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria), and has also been performed in the Philippines and South Africa. Her work has been heard at venues such as Carnegie Hall, The United Nations, and The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (New York). Several of Ellen’s pieces are collaborative projects involving dance, theater, poetry, and performance art; currently, she is working on a new piece for music-theatre produced by Companion Star, Inc., based on the work of Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. international ensemble has presented work-in-progress performances of "dreamseminar" both in Sweden and New York. It has been featured on Swedish television, and both American and Swedish radio. Recent grants to support Ellen’s work on the opera while living in Sweden include fellowships from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the American Swedish Institute (the Malmberg Scholarship), and development funding from The New York State Council on the Arts. She has been invited for multiple residencies at the Visby International Centre for Composers (Sweden), the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), and the International Ceramic Research Center (Denmark; a collaboration with ceramic artist Henny Linn Kjellberg to develop porcelain percussion instruments), and has served as composer-in-residence at Mälardalen University (Sweden). Ellen has been invited to speak about her work live and in radio interviews in the US, Canada, Sweden, and Denmark. Her work is published by Marimba Productions, Inc., and Apple Mountain Music Press (ASCAP). Go Fish Music has recently released Thomas Burritt’s solo CD titled "All Times Identical," with his recording of her solo marimba work "Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky."
As a pianist, Ellen has performed as chamber musician and accompanist in the US, Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands. She was a co-founder of the Musicians’ Alliance for Peace (MAP), and co-organized MAP’s annual Music for Peace Project, a global network of concerts for peace. During the years 2004-2007, 350 concerts dedicated to peace were performed in 30 countries. Ellen holds degrees from Middlebury College (BA in composition and piano performance) and Stony Brook University (MA and PhD in composition). She has most recently served as visiting professor at the Gotland School of Music Composition in Sweden, and currently makes her home in the Netherlands. A deep respect for and love of the natural world is reflected in her work.
Where there is life, there is hope. I feel strongly that I can make it.
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