ELIZABETH OGONEK

Biography

(b. 1989) was born in Anoka, Minnesota and raised in New York City. She began her formal music studies at the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division where she studied piano with Robin Freund. At age 13, she began attending Walnut Hill School, a boarding school for the arts in Natick, Massachusetts which is affiliated with New England Conservatory. At age 16, she became interested in composition and moved back to New York to study with Matthew Van Brink and took classes through the Harvard University Extension School. Elizabeth is a recipient of a 2007 Morton Gould Young Composer Award for her fantasy pieces entitled Three Scarlet Moods for clarinet and piano. She has attended the Yellow Barn Young Artists' Program, the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the American Conservatory in Paris at Fontainebleau. Elizabeth's teachers include Matthew Van Brink, Sam Adler, François Paris, Allain Gaussin, Don Freund and Claude Baker.

Currently, Elizabeth is working on her Bachelors Degree at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington where she studies composition with Claude Baker and piano with Andre De Groot.

Go to her Music page to hear her compositions.