Elliott Miles McKinley

Elliott Miles McKinley’s music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Recent commissions include those from the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Music Society, the SOLI Chamber Music Ensemble, and the Martinů String Quartet. He has had music performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, and had works performed on music festivals around the world including the Alba International Festival of Music in Italy, the Ernest Bloch Music Festival in Oregon, and the Contemporary Music Festival at Bowling Green State University. McKinley is a recipient of a number of awards, grants, and fellowships including those from BMI, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, the American Composers Forum, and Indiana University. He is also very active as a performer and improviser and is a founding member of the electroacoustic improvisation ensemble, earWorm.

McKinley is Chair of the Department of Music and Assistant Professor of Music at Indiana University East. In 2010 and 2011 he also served as a composer-in-residence at Inver Hills College in Minnesota. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz studies and composition from the New England Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music degree in composition from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Minnesota.