Elliott Sharp

Composer and multi-instrumentalist,

leads the Orchestra Carbon, Terraplane and Tectonics projects and is a pioneer in the application of fractal geometry, chaos theory and genetics to musical composition and interaction.

His opera Port Bou was premiered in New York in October 2014, his composition Storm Of the Eye for violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn in Paris in January 2013, Oneirika for Zeitkratzer in March 2012 at MaerzMusik – Berlin and Persistence of Vision for orchestra in April at Sonic Visions in Reutlingen.
For his birthday marathon E# @ 60, he was commissioned by Issue Project Room to write Occam’s Razor for double string quartet. Sharp directed, wrote and composed About Us, a science fiction opera for all teenage performers, which was commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and premiered in July 2010. In 2009, his opera Binibon was premiered at The Kitchen and he performed at the Ostrava Music Days 2009 as lecteur and composer.

He has also performed at New Music Stockholm 2007, Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007, Hessischer Rundfunk Klangbiennale 2007, Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik 2002 and the Venice Biennale 2003, 2006 and 2012. Sharp’s work is the subject of the recently released documentary film Doing The Don’t by Bert Shapiro.
Sharp’s installations include Fluvial, a computerised multi-channel audio work, Chromatine, an interactive string/computer sculpture, and Tag, an interactive electroacoustic audio work.
His electroacoustic composition Cryptid Fragments was featured in the 2001 exhibition Bitstreams at the Whitney Museum.

He has worked with Ensemble Modern, blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, pop singer Debbie Harry, Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the JACK String Quartet, Ensemble Resonanz, cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti, pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng, jazz greats Jack deJohnette and Sonny Sharrock, multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe and Bachir Attar, director of the Master Musicians Of Jahjouka.