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Elizabeth Younan (b. 1994) is widely recognised as one of Australia's finest young composers. Her violin solo, ...your heart dreams of spring is featured on Jennifer Koh's 2022 GRAMMY award-winning album, Alone Together. She composed for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's 50 Fanfares Project and is also the composer for the acclaimed podcast, Lost Women of Science. Her work has been presented by Musica Viva Australia during its 2018 and 2020 International Concert Seasons, and she has composed for principal players of the Philadelphia Orchestra as part of their Our City, Your Orchestra series.

Elizabeth is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at New York's Juilliard School on a full-tuition scholarship as a C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellow, studying with Amy Beth Kirsten. In 2024, Elizabeth was awarded an Australian Universities' John Monash Scholarship from the General Sir John Monash Foundation, which supports outstanding Australians undertaking postgraduate study abroad. Her accolades include a 2026 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the UNSW Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship, and the Watermark Composition Prize from the Kendall National Violin Competition, among others.

She holds a BMus with First Class Honours and an MMus from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she studied with Carl Vine AO. During this time, Elizabeth received the Ignaz Friedman Memorial Prize and the Australian Postgraduate Award. Elizabeth then graduated from the Curtis Institute of music in 2021, where all students attend on full-tuition scholarship. Upon graduation, she received the Charles Miller "Alfredo Casella" Award for excellence in composition and was selected by faculty and staff as the female graduating speaker for the Class of 2021. She studied with Jennifer Higdon, David Serkin Ludwig, and Richard Danielpour, becoming the first Australian composer ever admitted to Curtis in its then nearly 100-year history.

Elizabeth Younan — current to April 2025