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Elizabeth Younan (1994) is quickly gaining a reputation as one of Australia's finest young composers. Her violin solo, …your heart dreams of spring is featured on Jennifer Koh's 2022 GRAMMY award-winning album, Alone Together. Elizabeth is a Sydney Symphony Orchestra 50 Fanfares Project composer, and has composed music for the podcast Lost Women of Science. Elizabeth was a featured Australian composer of Musica Viva Australia's International Concert Seasons (2018, 2020), the 2021-2022 Layton Emerging Fellowship Composer (UNSW), and has composed for principal players of the Philadelphia Orchestra for their "Our City, Your Orchestra" series.

Accolades include a Daniel W. Dietrich II Young Alumni Fund Award from the Curtis Institute of Music, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the Kendall National Violin Competition's Watermark Composition Prize, the 102.5 Fine Music and Willoughby Symphony Young Composer Award, and the Jean Bogan Youth Prize.

Elizabeth is now pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts in composition at The Juilliard School on full-tuition scholarship as a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow, where she studies with Dr. Amy Beth Kirsten. In 2024, Elizabeth was awarded a prestigious Australian Universities' John Monash Scholarship from the General Sir John Monash Foundation, which provides postgraduate scholarships to outstanding Australians to study overseas. Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition with First Class Honours and a Master of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she studied with Carl Vine AO. She was awarded the Ignaz Friedman Memorial Prize, a research grant from the Australia Council for her Honours thesis, and the Australian Postgraduate Award. Elizabeth then graduated from her composition studies at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, which all students attend on full scholarship. She graduated with the Charles Miller "Alfredo Casella" Award for excellence in composition and was selected by staff and faculty to be the female graduating speaker for the class of 2021. She studied with Dr. Jennifer Higdon, Dr. David Serkin Ludwig, and Dr. Richard Danielpour as the first Australian composer to be admitted to Curtis in its nearly 100-year history.

Elizabeth Younan — current to April 2025