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Eli Greenhoe

Eli Greenhoe is a composer, producer, conductor, and guitarist from Brooklyn, New York. His works have been commissioned and performed by loadbang, Ensemble Dal Niente, Bergamot Quartet, and Contemporaneous, among many others. He has received fellowships, residencies, and recognition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, I-Park, ASCAP, Bang on a Can, and Yale University. His music has been programmed at the Bang on a Can, Tribeca New Music, Chatter, Ostrava Days (CZ), and Tokyo to New York (JP) festivals. In 2018 he was awarded a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2021 he was selected as a finalist in the Beth Morrison Projects “Next Generation” program.

As a songwriter and producer, he collaborates regularly with musicians in a wide variety of traditions. Primarily, he records music and performs as half of a project he co-leads with composer/multi-instrumentalist Hans Bilger. The duo released their debut Orchids album on Adhyâropa records in 2025.

In recent years, Eli has been engaged as a performer in a variety of musical spaces. He plays regularly in the improvising sextet Locomotive, co-led by Adam O’Farrill and David Leon, and alongside violinist/composer Ledah Finck in the avant-folk duo Freddy and Sally. Other notable recent engagements as a guitarist include performances with Contemporaneous, the Yale Philharmonia, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. As a conductor, he recently premiered Patricia Brennans Of the Near and Far — an evening-length work for improvising ensemble — at the Jazz Gallery in New York.

Greenhoe is also active in interdisciplinary collaboration: his film and commercial music has been featured in Vogue Magazine online and as an official selection of the 2020 Maryland Film Festival (with filmmaker Max Bowens). Upcoming projects include an evening-length string quartet for Bergamot Quartet, a collaboration with bassist Sam Suggs, and a new work for Loadbang and violinist Miranda Cuckson.

Eli is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at the Yale School of Music, where he has studied primarily with Martin Bresnick, David Lang, and Aaron Jay Kernis.

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