Ellen Mandel

Ellen Mandel, composer, has written many songs to texts by E.E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, WB Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Mew, and others. Her most recent project is a cycle of fourteen songs inspired by Edward Hopper paintings. Mandel’s songs have been performed in many concerts in New York City including Tribeca New Music Festival, St Mark’s Church, Klavierhaus, Cornelia Street Cafe, and the Century Center; the Sirena Poetry Festival(PA), the In-Series (Wash DC); Florio Street Concerts and SF Conservatory (CA), the New Gallery Concerts in Boston; and in concerts and recitals all over the USA. Also at the Kilkenny Arts Festival (Ireland), and in concerts in Scotland, England, Italy, and Germany. New York Times raves: “Mandel’s songs are ardent and
spiky…refreshingly organic.”

Ms. Mandel has written music for over ninety plays, from Sophocles to Shakespeare to Stoppard, and is resident composer of the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble in New York City. She received a Scenie Award for her music for Top Girls, Antaeus Theatre, LA. Dizzy Gillespie called her a “wonderful musician.” Ms Mandel has recorded 5 CDs including a wind has blown the rain away (e.e. cummings songs), and the first of all my dreams (songs to Yeats, Heaney, cummings and others)—both sung by Todd Almond, and I So Liked Spring with Jessica Crandall. Her songs have been published by the Royal Conservatory (Toronto), and Trinity College of Music (London), and by her own company, Mopat Music. The Art Song Project website features two of her songs. More info and to hear lots of Ellen’s music:
https://ellenmandel.com/music#songs-and-other-pieces