Eleanor Hovda

Who is Eleanor Hovda?

Eleanor Hovda was a composer and dancer from the United States of America. She was born in Duluth, Minnesota and died in Springdale, Arkansas.

She received her Bachelors of Arts in music at American University in Washington D.C. and her MFA in dance at Sarah Lawrence College. Her music has been performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad by ensembles including the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, KlangForum, the Cassatt and Kronos Quartets, Zeitgeist, Bang on a Can All-Stars, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Boston Musica Viva, The California Ear Unit, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet and the St. Louis Symphony. Performance venues have included Ozawa Hall, Alice Tully, Carnegie Hall Weill, Miller, Walter Reade and Merkin Concert Halls; The Kitchen, Bang on a Can Festival and The Alternative Museum the Purcell Room, The American Academy, the American Center, the WDR, Cervantino Festival, New Music Forum, Holland Festival, Vienna, Madrid, Barcelona, Tokyo and Asahikawa; colleges and universities including Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Swarthmore; The Walker Art Center, and New Music America. Remote, a collaboration with Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, toured nationally and made its NYC premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1997.