Elizabeth Vercoe is an American musician, music educator, and composer. Vercoe has won a number of national and international composition competitions and received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. She has also received fellowships from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, from 1983 to 1985 for three separate residencies in France, and she has also been a Fellow at MacDowell, the Charles Ives Center for American Music, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. In 2003 Elizabeth Vercoe was awarded the Acuff Chair of Excellence at Austin Peay State University for a semester residency in which she gave public lectures, coached performances of her music, and was commissioned to write new work.
More recently she has attended performances of her music at the Goethe Institute in Bangkok, Bruno Walter Hall in Lincoln Center, Tanglewood, and Carnegie Recital Hall. Her music is recorded on Navona, Owl and Centaur compact discs and published by the American Composers Alliance, Certosa Verlag (Germany), Noteworthy Sheet Music, and Neil Gladd Publications. A dissertation about her vocal music (J. Capaldo, Elizabeth Vercoe: Composing Her Story) is available online.
