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Elizabeth Lim is currently a first-year graduate student at the Juilliard School, where she is studying composition with Dr. Samuel Adler. Her principal teachers in composition over the years have included Julian Anderson, Brian Ferneyhough, Joshua Fineberg, and Elliott Gyger, among others. Born in San Francisco, Elizabeth began her musical training at the age of four, enrolled in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Preparatory Division at thirteen, and formally began her composition studies during her junior year of high school. Since then, she has received numerous honors and awards from various composition competitions and organizations such as ASCAP, BMI, Music Teachers Association of California, and National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts for her compositions, and her music has been performed throughout the United States, as well as in Germany and Japan. Elizabeth received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude with highest honors and was awarded the 2008 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, the John Green Fellowship in Composition, and the Paine Traveling Fellowship. During her career at Harvard, she was also the 2006 recipient of the Harvard University Hugh F. MacColl Prize in Music Composition for her string quartet, "The Dream," which was featured at the 2007 Society of Composers, Inc. National Student Conference in Arizona. In addition, she was the 2008 winner of the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra Composition Competition for her orchestral work "Night Dance Ritual." Last spring, Elizabeth was named an Emerging Composer-in-Residence with the Berkeley Symphony for their 2008 season, during which three of her orchestral works were read and performed by as part of the Berkeley Symphony's "Under Construction" concert series. Elizabeth was also the recent recipient of the 2007-2008 Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra's Peer-to-Peer Commissioning Composition Competition, and as the winner of the 2007-2008 Bellevue Youth Symphony's Young Composer's Competition. More recently, Elizabeth received second prize and the Audience Award at the First National Iron Composers Competition, hosted by Artsaha!, and a 2008 ASCAPlus Award. Aside from her musical studies during the school year, Elizabeth attended the 2006 Brevard Music Institute, the 2007 and 2005 Bowdoin International Summer Music Festival, and the 2007 Nevada Encounters of New Music Conference. She was also an active member of the Music Teachers Association of California's Young Composer Guild from 2003-2007.