{"id":611,"date":"2023-03-04T07:57:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T12:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/?page_id=611"},"modified":"2023-07-19T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T16:33:56","slug":"elijah-botkin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/concert-details\/about-the-directors\/elijah-botkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Botkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-612 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elijah-no-bkg-crop-adjusted-e1677934463398.png\" alt=\"Elijah Botkin conducts the world premieres of &quot;The Narrow Bridge&quot; by Daniel Gil, &quot;Three Possessions&quot; by Charles Osborne, &quot;Sarai&quot; by Robbie Solomon; and he  sings bass on the world premiere of &quot;Where is Sarah?&quot; by Lucy Helen Boling.\" width=\"96\" height=\"156\" \/>Elijah Botkin is a Boston-based conductor, arranger, choral educator, and performer.\u00a0 He is the Music Director for <em>Revels<\/em>, and the Interim Artistic Director for the <em>Reading Community Singers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Elijah graduated from Northeastern University in 2015 with bachelors degrees in Music History &amp; Analysis and in Mathematics.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Elijah&#8217;s work on Distilled Harmony&#8217;s quarterfinal-winning performance set won the distinction of Outstanding Arrangement from the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. \u00a0His arrangement of &#8220;Nothing Feels Like You&#8221; by Little Mix won a CARA (Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award) for Best Mixed Collegiate Song. \u00a0In 2014, Elijah was granted the Gideon Klein Award to write his composition <em>The Closed Town<\/em>, which was premiered by the Northeastern University Chamber Choir in April 2015. \u00a0More recently, his arrangements and compositions for Midwinter Revels: A Celebration of the Solstice were hailed by the Boston Globe as &#8220;uncannily idiomatic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this concert, Elijah will conduct the world premieres of &#8220;The Narrow Bridge&#8221; by Daniel Gil,\u00a0 &#8220;Three Possessions&#8221; by Charles Osborne, and &#8220;Sarai&#8221; by Robbie Solomon.\u00a0 He will also sing bass on the world premiere of &#8220;Where is Sarah?&#8221; by Lucy Helen Boling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elijah Botkin is a Boston-based conductor, arranger, choral educator, and performer.\u00a0 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 &amp; Analysis and in Mathematics.\u00a0 While at Northeastern, Elijah served as President and Assistant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":789,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-611","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":null,"comments_number":"0","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611\/revisions\/614"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmy.fund\/concert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}