Elijah Botkin is a Boston-based conductor, arranger, choral educator, and performer. He is the Music Director for Revels, and the Interim Artistic Director for the Reading Community Singers.
Elijah graduated from Northeastern University in 2015 with bachelors degrees in Music History & Analysis and in Mathematics. While at Northeastern, Elijah served as President and Assistant Conductor for the NU Choral Society; founded and directed the Northeastern Madrigal Singers, which he continues to direct; and sang with and arranged for the award-winning a cappella group Distilled Harmony.
Elijah’s work on Distilled Harmony’s quarterfinal-winning performance set won the distinction of Outstanding Arrangement from the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. His arrangement of “Nothing Feels Like You” by Little Mix won a CARA (Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award) for Best Mixed Collegiate Song. In 2014, Elijah was granted the Gideon Klein Award to write his composition The Closed Town, which was premiered by the Northeastern University Chamber Choir in April 2015. More recently, his arrangements and compositions for Midwinter Revels: A Celebration of the Solstice were hailed by the Boston Globe as “uncannily idiomatic.”
At this concert, Elijah will conduct the world premieres of “The Narrow Bridge” by Daniel Gil, “Three Possessions” by Charles Osborne, and “Sarai” by Robbie Solomon. He will also sing bass on the world premiere of “Where is Sarah?” by Lucy Helen Boling.