Eli Greenhoe is a composer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist from Brooklyn, New York. His concert works have been commissioned and performed by such artists and ensembles as Contemporaneous, loadbang, Bergamot Quartet, Aki Takahashi, S.E.M. Ensemble, and George Manahan, among others. His music has been programmed at the Bang on a Can, Chatter, Yellow Barn, Ostrava Days (CZ), and Tokyo to New York (JP) festivals. In 2018 he was awarded a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2021 he was selected as a finalist in the Beth Morrison Projects “Next Generation” program. He has received additional recognition from ASCAP, American Composers Orchestra’s EARSHOT, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Yale School of Music.

As a songwriter, Greenhoe has led bands in New York City and elsewhere nearly his entire life. Currently he records music and performs as half of Airborne Charlie, a project he co-leads alongside composer/multi-instrumentalist Hans Bilger. The duo released their debut album in 2020, and in 2023 founded Miniwagon, a music and media production company.

In recent years, Greenhoe has been engaged as a performer in a multitude of musical spaces. He plays regularly in the improvising sextet Locomotive, co-led by Adam O’Farrill and David Leon, and alongside violinist/composer Ledah Finck in the avant-folk duo Freddy and Sally. Other notable recent engagements as a guitarist include performances with Contemporaneous, the Yale Philharmonia, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. As a conductor, he recently premiered Adam O’Farrill’s For These Streets, an evening-length work for improvising ensemble, at the Jazz Gallery in New York.

Greenhoe is also active in interdisciplinary collaboration: his film and commercial music has been featured in Vogue Magazine online and as an official selection of the 2020 Maryland Film Festival (with filmmaker Max Bowens).

Upcoming projects include an evening length string quartet for Bergamot Quartet, collaborations with bassists Sam Suggs and Will Yager, and a forthcoming new album of music with Hans Bilger.

Eli is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at the Yale School of Music, where he has studied primarily with Martin Bresnick, David Lang, and Aaron Jay Kernis