Elliott Lupp - Composer
Improvisor // Audio Engineer // Educator // Visual Artist
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Short Bio
Elliott Lupp is a composer, improvisor, multimedia artist, and educator currently based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His compositional and technological interests are multi-faceted, ranging from works for solo musician and chamber ensembles to multimedia projects with lights and video. His process typically involves some amount of journaling and/or doodling, as well as improvising and experimenting with tactile objects, light, and/or digital technologies. His work mirrors these interests and practices, frequently showcasing dramatic collisions between harsh noise and tonality, real-world and synthesized samples, and acoustic and electroacoustic timbre and gesture.
Lupp is currently an instructor of composition and music technology at Western Michigan University where he teaches courses in composition, electronic music techniques, computer music design, aural skills, and music theory.
NEWS
May 29th // minus // New Thread Saxophone Quartet // New York (TBD)
March 24th // RUCKUS RUCKUS // Kyle Hutchins and Kendra Wheeler // Virginia Tech
June 6th // The OVERUNDERWHELM (2025) // Varo String Quartet // Ryan Opera Theater, Evanston
PART 1: wonder ball
PART 2: kitchen corner threnody
PART 3: sugar cookie heartfetti
PART 4: burn-in blowout
PART 5: bask
minus // Performers: Nois Quartet
STRIX // Kelly Quesada
Windows 1-5 // Justin Ortez
June 5th // a warp along the length of the face (2021) // Will Yager //Florida State University
November 12th // Away From Face // Electric Chamber Orchestra (EChO) // Florida State University College of Music
May 1st // RUCKUS RUCKUS // Kyle Hutchins and Kendra Wheeler // San Diego State University / San Diego, CA
April 30th // RUCKUS RUCKUS // Kyle Hutchins and Kendra Wheeler // UCLA / Los Angeles, CA
April 29th // RUCKUS RUCKUS // Kyle Hutchins and Kendra Wheeler // Cal State Fullerton / Fullerton, CA
March 1st // STRIX // Isidora Ntienjem // EMM Philip Lynch Theatre, Lewis University
Aug 2025 - Began teaching at Western Michigan University - Instructor of record (Composition and Music Technology)
Awarded ASQ funding Award (Advanced Student Quarter) for Dissertation research | 2025
1st place winner of the 2024 Faricy Award | 2024
Winner of international CIME Prix 2023 Residency Award | 2023
1st place winner of the international 2023 MA/IN Award (Category B) | 2023
All-University Award in Graduate Research and Creative Scholarship | 2019
Departmental Award in Graduate Research and Creative Scholarship | 2019
2nd place winner of the international ASCAP/SEAMUS Commission Competition | 2019
1st place winner of Fisk: Franklin G. Fisk Composition Award for Chamber Music | 2019
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