For Good Measure

Born in Oakland and raised in Davis, composer ELINOR ARMER has spent her life on the West Coast, where she has taught piano, theory, composition, and music history at every level, in schools and universities, at her home in Berkeley as well as in master classes in the U.S. and abroad. For the last fifty years she has been affiliated with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where in 1985 she established the composition department, and where she continues to teach composition. Since 2014, the Conservatory has awarded the Elinor Armer Scholarship in Composition to qualifying women applicants. Armer’s music is widely performed worldwide and published by Subito Music Corporation. Among her best-known works is "Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts" a fantasy series created over a ten-year period with writer Ursula K. Le Guin.