Ellen Reid (1983)
Ellen Reid (not to be confused with the vocalist and keyboardist of Crash Test Dummies) was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She attended Columbia College, Columbia University, where she started composing. She earned a BFA from Columbia and an MA from California Institute of the Arts.
Together with Missy Mazzoli, Ellen Reid cofounded Luna Composition Lab, a mentorship program for young female, non-binary, and gender non-conforming composers.
Ellen Reid won a Pulitzer Prize for Music for her 2018 opera p r i s m with a libretto by Roxie Perkins. The plot involves a mother and daughter dealing with post-traumatic stress following a sexual assault. The opera has had a couple productions, a recording, and was streamed by LA Opera in 2021.
This is a 2018 composition by Ellen Reid entitled Oscillations | 100 Years and Forever for chorus, four solo singers, percussion, and video projections. It was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic to celebrate their 100th anniversary and performed as an installation in the Keck Amphitheatre.
The libretto is by Sarah LaBrie, but I could not locate the text of the libretto or any other information about this work.