Ellen Fishman is an accomplished composer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her early training included the study of piano, clarinet and saxophone, with emphasis on jazz improvisation. She studied music composition at San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkeley, the Peabody Conservatory, and at the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau. Her work has been performed at the New Works Forum at Opera America, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, and ASU Kerr Cultural Center. Fishman has collaborated with interdisciplinary artists including choreographer and former Martha Graham dancer, Jeanne Ruddy; award-winning poets Michael Heller and Naomi Shihab Nye; renowned painter, Elizabeth Osborne; and the Director of Drexel University’s Expressive and Creative Interactive Technologies (ExCITe) Center, Dr. Youngmoo Kim. Recent accomplishments include the Opera America Discovery Grant for Female Composers supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation for the interactive opera Marie Begins as well as the premiere of Lark Dances, performed and recorded by the Fairmount String Quartet. A recording of StringFlo written for movement and meditation was released in 2023 after two sessions with yoga instructor Tara Culp with the Fairmount String Quintet and was featured in the March/April 2024 issue of Strings Magazine. She is currently working on an opera with spatial audio and her work Shards of Memory for piano and spatial audio will be performed at the DiMenna Center in New York, November 15th, 2024 by renowned pianist Marilyn Nonken.