Elliott Schwartz has taught at Bowdoin College since 1964, and is presently Robert K. Beckwith Professor of music Emeritus. He has also held visiting residencies at the University of California (Santa Barbara and San Diego), Ohio State University, the London College of Music, Cambridge University (UK) and Trinity College of Music (UK). Performances of Schwartz’s music include the Minnesota Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Tanglewood, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), and De Ijsbreker (Amsterdam). He has appeared as visiting composer-lecturer (often speaking on the subject of American music) at universities and conservatories in Paris, Strasbourg, Tokyo, Weimar, Mannheim, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, London, and Reykjavik. Extended residencies include the Harvard Band and Oxford University. In 2006, his 70th birthday was celebrated with concerts at the University of Minnesota, the Library of Congress, and the Royal Academy of Music (London). A number of his works are recorded on the New World, CRI, Albany, Capstone and Innova labels.