Elizabeth Garland is an award-winning composer, residing outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico.  A classically trained pianist, she began composing while pursuing her undergraduate degree in theatre and piano performance. A passion for cinematic and orchestral music later led her to the Film and TV Scoring Program at Berklee College of Music.

Elizabeth has scored documentaries, period pieces, dramas and comedies, action-adventure and horror. Her neo-classical ensemble, Delphi Project, featuring looping electro-acoustic cello and electric violin, has been featured in film and performed in avant garde stage productions, and ballets, as well as in concert here and abroad.

Awards include: 2022 Unsigned Only 1st Prize (instrumental), 2022 International Songwriting Competition Finalist, 2021 International Golden Key Composition Competition1st Prize, 2019 International Music Guild Composition Competition 1st Prize, 2021 Commissioned Composer of New Mexico. She has been awarded residencies that have led to experimental collaborations with choreographers and filmmakers. Elizabeth has performed her works for film and stage at the World Composers Concert in Vienna and across Europe.

Classically trained as a pianist, Elizabeth won the MTNA Honors Piano Competition for NM at the age of 16. A vast range of music influences Elizabeth’s music. Drawing from the pages of Beethoven and Chopin, Debussy and Dvoȓak, U2 and Sinatra, Einaudi, and Glass, her “neo-classical” instrumental and symphonic compositions have been called “haunting, evocative, soulful.”

Collaboration provides inspiration and a platform for spotlighting important issues. Garland partook in a residency at the 2019 Hear! Here! Festival, where she and noted African ballet choreographer, Romy Keegan created a contemporary ballet on Immigration and the Wall. In 2021-2022, an Arts Hub Fellowship strengthened and unified Elizabeth’s practice.

Delphi Project features Elizabeth’s compositions in small ensemble format. Looping electro-acoustic creations and avant-garde stage productions engage the imagination and senses.

Elizabeth is grateful to have been mentored by amazing pianists, composers and orchestrators, including Michael Mauldin, Shirley Flint and Philip Giffin.

Growing up with 4 brothers in a New Mexican border town, Elizabeth’s music reflects her past, “a mix of land and sky- wild and dreamlike and always thirsty for the sea.”