Elizabeth Younan (1994) is quickly gaining a reputation as one of Australia’s finest young composers. She was a featured Australian composer of Musica Viva’s 2020 and 2018 International Concert Seasons, and her violin solo, “…your heart dreams of spring” is featured on Jennifer Koh’s GRAMMY award-winning album, “Alone Together.” Elizabeth is the 2021-2022 Layton Emerging Composer (Australia Ensemble UNSW), is one of the commissioned composers of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s 50 Fanfares project, and has been broadcast numerous times on ABC Classic FM and 102.5 Fine Music. She has also composed for principal players of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and is the composer for the Lost Women of Science podcast, produced in partnership with PRX and Scientific American. Accolades include an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for her Woodwind Quintet No. 2, “Kismet” (2021), the Kendall National Violin Competition’s Watermark Composition Prize for her Microsonata No. II for Violin and Piano (2020), the 102.5 Fine Music and Willoughby Symphony Young Composer Award for her first orchestral work, Clarinet Concerto (2016), and the Jean Bogan Youth Prize for her piano solo, Five Persian Preludes (2014). Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition with First Class Honours (2015) and a Master of Music (2018) from The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she studied with Carl Vine AO. She was awarded the Ignaz Friedman Memorial Prize (2014) and the prestigious Australian Postgraduate Award (2016-2018). Elizabeth graduated from her composition studies at The Curtis Institute of Music (class of 2021), which all students attend on full scholarship. Upon graduation received the Charles Miller “Alfredo Casella Award” for excellence in composition. Elizabeth is the first Australian composer to be admitted to Curtis in its nearly 100- year history. She studied with Dr. Jennifer Higdon, Dr. David Ludwig, Dr. Richard Danielpour, and Dr. Amy Beth Kirsten.