Discipline: Music Composition

Elizabeth Vercoe

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Carlisle, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992
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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.

Studios

Veltin

Elizabeth Vercoe worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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