Elizabeth Ogonek, composition (New York and Ithaca, NY), is an Assistant Professor of Composition at Cornell University, and was previously Assistant Professor of Composition at Oberlin Conservatory. Her music has been commissioned and performed by some of the world’s top orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the LA Philharmonic, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2015, Elizabeth was appointed to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as one of its Mead Composers-in-Residence. During her tenure with the CSO, she was commissioned to write three new works and was also responsible for co-curating MusicNOW, the orchestra’s new music series, which brought together CSO musicians with composers to explore the music of today as well as influential works of the 20th Century. Elizabeth's work has been recognized by the ASCAP Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Royal Philharmonic Society, and the Ohio Arts Council. Elizabeth's primary teachers included Don Freund, Claude Baker, Michael Gandolfi, Donald Crockett, Stephen Hartke and Julian Anderson. A former Beinecke and Marshall Scholar, she holds degrees from Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music (BM, 2009), the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music (MM, 2012) and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (DMus, 2017).