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Tamzin Elliott

Tamzin Elliott is a composer and writer based in Los Angeles, and a doctoral student at University of Southern California.

Articles by this Author

Recording Review
February 15, 2021
Where are you? Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens Reflect the Pandemic in L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S.
BY Tamzin Elliott

A cycle of songs that chart “birth, blooming, fracturing, and rebirth” in the year of the coronavirus.

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Recording Review
December 12, 2020
Beauty and Pain of Change in Molly Pease’s Inner Astronomy
BY Tamzin Elliott

The singer sets her father’s melancholy poetry to evocative new music.

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Recording Review
October 19, 2020
Gothic Kinship: Ash Fure’s Something to Hunt
BY Tamzin Elliott

Fure’s new album strikes fear in the listener but makes a profoundly human point.

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Recording Review
August 24, 2020
Gyda Valtysdottir Celebrates Constellation of Friends in Epicycle II
BY Tamzin Elliott

The Icelandic cellist, singer, and composer calls on longtime collaborators for her latest album.

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Recording Review
August 11, 2020
Sara Serpa’s Recognition: A Personal Reckoning With Portuguese Colonialism
BY Tamzin Elliott

Serpa’s multimedia project incorporates sometimes unsettling home videos.

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Recording Review
July 13, 2020
Let Yourself Think With Jacob Cooper’s Terrain
BY Tamzin Elliott

The composer melds voices, cello, and electronics in works based on texts from three poets.

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New Music Review
July 7, 2020
Towards Unity and Justice: A Conversation Between Queer and Trans Artists
BY Tamzin Elliott

C4NM and Transgender Cultural District host a forum on finding equity in the arts for all.

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New Music Review
March 3, 2020
Quiet Beauties: Tim Feeney at REDCAT
BY Tamzin Elliott

The experimental sound artist and percussionist showed broad imagination and commitment in an evening of improvisation and musical fragments.

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New Music Review
February 9, 2020
WasteLAnd’s “Collective Creation” Is a Forager’s Feast
BY Tamzin Elliott

A full evening of improvised music makes for challenging and rewarding listening.

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Opera Review
January 20, 2020
Proving Up Proves Difficult
BY Tamzin Elliott

Pasadena Opera presents Missy Mizzoli’s challenging opera.

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New Music Review
December 19, 2019
Carolyn Chen Makes Reality Remarkable
BY Tamzin Elliott

Augmented with prerecorded sounds, the Koan Quartet grows a complex sonic ecosystem in Chen’s Other Forests.

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New Music Review
December 16, 2019
Delirium Musicum Shows Off Its Versatility
BY Tamzin Elliott

The L.A. chamber orchestra veers from Xenakis to classic minimalism to contemporary Baroque and original Baroque in one concert.

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New Music Review
December 10, 2019
Éliane Radigue’s Occam Ocean Is a Meditation on the Sonic Seas That Surround Us
BY Tamzin Elliott

The premiere of seven new pieces were just the latest of nearly 50 small-ensemble works that comprise the composer’s magnum opus.

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New Music Review
October 22, 2019
Two Contemporary Composers Make Meaning in the Space Around Their Music
BY Tamzin Elliott

An album-release party celebrates new recordings from trumpeter Sarah Belle Reid and thereminist Carolina Eyck.

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Artist Spotlight
David Rosenboom Steps Into the New
October 12, 2019
David Rosenboom Steps Into the New
BY Tamzin Elliott

The departing dean of the music school at CalArts is still excited about fresh ideas and new approaches to making music.

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New Music Review
October 1, 2019
SILENCE Boldly Links Classical and Indie-Rock
BY Tamzin Elliott

A big, excellent idea needs more attention to practical details.

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Feature Article
What Should I Wear With This Album?
September 13, 2019
What Should I Wear With This Album?
BY Tamzin Elliott

We review the highly anticipated solo debut of Natalie Joachim, of eighth blackbird, and new albums by established composers Christopher Cerrone and Timo Andres.

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New Music Review
September 13, 2019
L.A. Signal Lab Premiere Raises Cosmic Questions
BY Tamzin Elliott

The new-music group debuts the 14-movement URSA: an interstellar cantata at Monk Space.

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New Music Review
September 10, 2019
Comedy and Horror and Awkward Parties: Performance Art From People Inside Electronics
BY Tamzin Elliott

Two new-music duos, Aperture Duo and Autoduplicity, engage in wanton acts of performance.

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Modern Classical Review
August 12, 2019
Romanticism With an Electroacoustic Twist
BY Tamzin Elliott

The L.A.-based Sonic Open Orchestra presents a concert of pleasing contradictions.

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