Connor Elias Way
Composer

About

Connor Elias Way (b. 1991) is a composer whose music explores resonance through carefully wrought networks of heterophonic counterpoint and a spectrally-informed approach to sonority and timbre. His music has been performed by groups such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, Aizuri Quartet, Yarn/Wire, Contemporaneous, Sō Percussion, Chamber Cartel, Terminus Ensemble, Modern Medieval, Dither, Omnibus Ensemble, Now Hear This, Occasional Symphony, Arx Duo, Bergamot Quartet, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and at the Charleston Symphony’s Magnetic South series.

Connor holds a B.Mus. in Composition (summa cum laude) from Georgia State University and an M.M. in Composition from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University where he was presented with the Gustav Klemm Award in Composition. He is currently a PhD candidate at Princeton University.

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Connor Elias Way (b. 1991) is a composer whose music explores resonance through carefully wrought networks of heterophonic counterpoint and a spectrally-informed approach to sonority and timbre. His music has been performed by groups such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, Aizuri Quartet, Yarn/Wire, Contemporaneous, Sō Percussion, Chamber Cartel, Terminus Ensemble, Modern Medieval, Dither, Omnibus Ensemble, Now Hear This, Occasional Symphony, Arx Duo, Bergamot Quartet, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and at the Charleston Symphony’s Magnetic South series.

Connor holds a B.Mus. in Composition (summa cum laude) from Georgia State University and an M.M. in Composition from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University where he was presented with the Gustav Klemm Award in Composition. He is currently a PhD candidate at Princeton University.

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[photo by Ryan James Christopher]