ELIZABETH YOUNAN - Piano Sonata No. 2 (2025). Composed as a first-year DMA student at The Juilliard School for Baron Fenwick. Premiered by Baron Fenwick on April 21, 2025, at Paul Hall, The Juilliard School.
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The Australian String Quartet has just finished touring Elizabeth’s String Quartet No. I, “Interwoven” around Australia! Read more about the origins of the work here.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has awarded Elizabeth a 2026 Charles Ives Scholarship! Read more here.
Elizabeth is about to commence the third year of her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School in NYC.
Elizabeth has been awarded a 2024 John Monash Scholarship from the General Sir John Monash Foundation! Find out more here.
Lost Women of Science has hit over a million downloads! Dive into the world of Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America’s first Black female public health pioneer, or Elizabeth Smith Friedman, the English Lit major who cracked nazi codes, or Eunice Newton Foote, who showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called “father of the greenhouse effect” by at least three years. You can also check it out on Scientific American, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Elizabeth’s violin solo “…your heart dreams of spring” is featured on Jennifer Koh’s album Alone Together, which won “Best Classical Instrumental Solo” at the 64th GRAMMY awards. Stream the album here.
ELIZABETH YOUNAN - The Fertile Crescent, Dance III “Dabke”. Ryan Williams (recorder), Katie Yap (baroque viola), Joy Lee (harpsichord), Miranda Hill (violone in G). Recorded March 2022 at ABC Studios, Melbourne. ℗ 2022 Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Elizabeth has been awarded an Australian Universities’ John Monash Scholarship from the General Sir John Monash Foundation. This will enable her to study her DMA in composition at The Juilliard School as a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow.
