Elizabeth Ogonek (born May 26, 1989) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
[1] She received her DM from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2015, where she studied with Julian Anderson on a Marshall Scholarship.
[2][1] That same year, Ogonek began a three-year term as the Mead composer-in-residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with the composer Samuel Adams.
[3][4][5][6] Some of her notable compositions include the chamber violin concerto In Silence and the orchestral dance suite All These Lighted Things.
This has led her to work with several young writers, including Sophia Veltfort, Ghazal Mosadeq, Ralph Nazareth, and Jonathan Dubow.