Elliott's profile
Post-romantic composer Elliott Grabill has composed for two decades, teaching math by day at Baltimore City Public Schools by day, and writing music by night. His works embrace romanticism, emotion, maximalism, and complex harmony. His strongest inspiration is the challenges he faces in life: his tumultuous career as a teacher, and his struggle with epilepsy. His music has been described as “sumptuous and gorgeous,” “hauntingly beautiful,” and “American.”
Mr. Grabill is a romantic to his core but forays into electronic music to expand the timbral possibilities of his language. He write the lyrics to his art songs. His current projects include a reed quintet for the Civitasolis Quintet, and religious choral music in the Pennsylvania Dutch language. He has also written for Pique Collective, the Washington Men's Camerata, and Dark in the Song.
He has previously taught math to college students, prison inmates, and middle school children. He taught and developed a course on the History of Jazz for at Bard High School Early College, has lectured on ethnomathematics and the relationship between music and math.
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2018 Baker Artist Awardee
In 2018, Amy Sherald became a Baker Artist Awardee and honored with the prestigious Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize, bringing her total Baker Award to $40,000—the largest art prize in the region. Selected from more than 900 Baltimore-area artists, Sherald’s work was recognized for its mastery, depth, and singular vision. Celebrated by the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (GBCA) and the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund, her achievement highlights both her remarkable rise and the strength of Baltimore’s arts community. Leaders from the foundation and GBCA praised Sherald’s profound impact on American audiences and affirmed the Baker Awards as a powerful catalyst for artistic careers.