In her original work, she aims to strike the right balance between clarity and abstraction, intention and intuition, decision-making and question-asking.
As a composer, she explores how text allows music to emerge, the expressive range of the voice, and the latent music within Latin poetry. Drawing from her background in classical philology and classical voice, this “archaeological excavation” of sound is an abstract form of translation, focusing on the spaces between words and the multiplicity of interpretation.
She is the 2026 William and Solange Brown Fellow for New Music Composition at Ragdale and recently composer in residence at Millay Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her work has been programmed at Oracle Egg, the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, LAX is here, Highways Performance Space, the Hear Now Music Festival, CalArts, the N.E.O. Voice Festival, Open Gate Theatre, and Renegade Opera.
As a versatile mezzo-soprano, Elliot brings her sincere and sensitive artistry to polystylistic music-theater projects. Recent performance highlights include her original projects Umbra (Highways) and Sulpicia Songs (Oracle Egg), Overtone Industries’ production of Original Vision V: Menagerie as part of Opera Fest LA, Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens as Polyxo (CalArts), and Judith Berkson’s premiere of Partial Memories (New Opera Days Ostrava).
She also serves as Director of Operations at Overtone Industries, which is part of her larger artistic practice of community-building, collaboration, and creating infrastructure that supports emerging voices in experimental opera.
She holds an M.F.A. in Voice Arts from CalArts and a B.A. in Classics from Reed College.