Elizabeth Younan is quickly gaining a reputation as one of Australia's finest young composers. After completing a Bachelor of Music in Composition (First Class Honours) and a Master of Music in Composition (supported by the Australian Postgraduate Award) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, she was the first Australian in history to be admitted to study composition at Philadelphia's prestigious Curtis Institute of Music on full scholarship. Most recently, her violin solo "...your heart dreams of spring" was featured on Jennifer Koh's GRAMMY award-winning album, "Alone Together." 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 Clarinet Concerto (2016), and the Jean Bogan Youth Prize for her Five Persian Preludes (2014). Elizabeth is the 2021-2022 Layton Emerging Composer, is a commissioned composer of both the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s 50 Fanfares Project and the ANAM Set, and has written for principal players of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Elizabeth is also the composer for the Lost Women of Science podcast. Elizabeth fervently believes that the most foundational goal of a composer is to communicate with people through music and foster a deeply shared humanity. Learn more at elizabethyounan.com