M. Elizabeth Garland is an award-winning composer/pianist/performer/teacher residing in New Mexico. Her work for solo piano and ensemble has been featured in films and documentaries and she has performed her works in the US and abroad. The 2021 Commissioned Composer for New Mexico, she is the 2019 International Piano Guild Composition Competition Winner, the 2nd prize recipient of the Golden Key of Vienna International Composition Competition and performed at the World Composers Concert in Austria in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Her compositions for her ensemble, Delphi Project, have received acclaim, including being a finalist for the 2020 NM Music Awards, and semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition. In 2019, she was honored to perform at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford. Garland partook in a residency at the 2019 Hear! Here! Festival, where she created a mini-ballet focused on immigration with choreographer, Romy Keegan. Classically trained, she won the MTNA Honors Piano Competition for NM at the age of 16. Influences ranging from Chopin, Debussy and Dvoȓak to Glass, Sinatra, Cesaria Evora, and Sting can be seen in her “neo-classical” compositions.