Awards & Honors
Spring 2026
Recipient of the Graduate Mentoring Excellence Award, URI
Fall 2024
Sabbatical semester awarded by URI to compose the opera Frontières de sable et de mer
November 2017
Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica, Finalist for Otohime (Double Bass Concerto)
September 2016
Utah Arts Festival National Composer Commissioning Program, Finalist for Figurines
2015–2016
Sabbatical Year awarded by URI: Studied Genesis (Synthesis by physical models) at ACROE, Institut National Polytechnique, in Grenoble, France. Director, Professor Claude Cadoz
2014
Invited to present Deux poèmes océaniques at the 10th Festival of Women Composers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Celebrating Women and Songwriting — Love Songs for Music Lovers. February 13–15, 2014
2010
Invited to present Tête à Tête at the 9th International Festival of Women Composers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March 17–20, 2010
2008 (continued)
Invited to present Grisailles vaporeuses at the 8th International Festival of Women Composers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March 24, 2008
2008
Award from Working in Harmony for Home and Hearth (a partnership between Notable Works and South County Habitat for Humanity). Compilation CD, including Joyful for piano, violin and cello
2007
New Ariel Composition Competition: CD release on ARIEL RECORDINGS for Surprisentopie.
Over 240 scores were submitted by 180 composers
2006
Faculty Development Research/Creative Activities Award: Arts & Sciences, URI ($1000)
2005
Submission for a Call for Scores accepted at the Twenty-sixth Annual New Music Art Festival at Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Presentation and performance of Sans Faiblir la Nuit Attend le Soleil (piano trio) by BGSU Faculty, October 28, 2005
1999
SACEM Encouragement Award for the premiere of Astéroïde 622 ($200)
1999
Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Award for Astéroïde 622 ($800)
1998
International Clarinet Association Composition Competition Award for Balshemtov (Soprano, Clarinet and Piano), Columbus, Ohio
1996
Alea III International Composition Competition, Boston, for Passages. Finalist
1995–1997
IRCAM – Institute of Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music, Paris
Ten participants were selected worldwide for the Annual Course in Composition and Electronic Music and for the commission of an electro-acoustic work for chamber ensemble and electronics presented during the following season
1995
Nicola de Lorenzo Prize, University of California, Berkeley Composition Award ($800)
1995
Marin Symphony Composition Prize, San Rafael (CA), Reflets sur la Cité Brumeuse.
Commissions
2028 Commission for an octet by the Kingston Chamber Music Festival for their 40th anniversary
2027 Commission from the American Band (Dr. Brian Cardany, conductor) for the 2027 Season.
2026 Commission from Oboist Jane Murray for her “End of the Row” ensemble (University Artist Series at URI, September 2026
2023
Commission for Purushartha for guitar solo (Guitar Festival 2023, RI)
Commission by Alecto (Creation/Diffusion of audiobooks) for the publication of a musical fable (operetta) for the 2024–2025 season, for violin, bassoon and harp
2022
Commission from Fifteen Minutes of Fame (Robert Voisey) for a one-minute hichiriki solo piece, performed by Thomas Piercy on Virtual Concert Halls, January 15, 2022
Commission for Alibaba et son chameau for cello and violin by Zoé-Axel Ruter, premiered at Saint-Martin Church of Prunay-sur-Essonne (France), March 26, 2022
2021
Commission from violist and teacher Olivier Jean Avondo, for Halilah for viola solo (3 movements), recorded in Paris, France (soloist: Olivier-Jean Avondo), June 22–24
2020
Commission from Gayane Darakyan for Kolha Korbabnot for solo piano (two movements, thirteen minutes)
Premiered at the Providence Music Mansion on May 1, 2022
2019
Commission from librettist Sarah Carleton for the opera In Our Own Voices
Performed in Westerly and Kingston, RI on November 2, 2019
2015
Commission from the company Amiche for a musical theater production/monodrama The Heart of Shahrazad on themes of betrayal and healing
Performed in Pittsburgh, PA, August 13–15, 2015, for soprano, harp, and percussion
2014
Commission from Earplay for Figurines for flute, clarinet, cello, piano and percussion
Premiered in San Francisco, January 19, 2014
2013
Commission from Providence Premieres for Deux Poèmes Océaniques for soprano, harp and violin
Premiered in Providence, April 19, 2013
2011
Commission of A Demon in My View by the Rhode Island–based AUREA Ensemble, for string trio, harmonica, and reader
Premiered June 2, 2014
2009
Commission from Dean Brownell for Around the World in Eight Minutes, for the Presidential Inauguration of Dr. Dooley, University of Rhode Island, funded by the Anton Family Foundation (grant written by the dean)
Written for brass ensemble, flutes, percussion, and traditional instruments; inspired by musical traditions of every continent
Premiered April 10, 2010 (Ann Danis, conductor)
Commission for Les Bons Augures, for orchestra, for the orchestra of the École de Musique de Cormeilles-en-Parisis, directed by Olivier Jean Avondo
2008
Commission from Margaret Frazier for Seven Deadly Sins, for soprano and electronics
2007
Commission from Nez/Wolfe Duo for Tête à Tête
Commission from René de la Garza for Baleines
2005
Commission from the Austrian-based Trio Amber for Grisailles vaporeuses
2003
Commission from the French Trio Assieme for Sans faiblir la nuit attend le soleil
2000
Commission from Ensemble InterContemporain for Quoi ? Ce point
1999
Commission from the Cercle Bernard Lazare, with the support of the Rhône-Alpes Department of Culture, for the Yiddish music theatre project Chant du Peuple Juif Assassiné by Yitzhak Katzenelson, in Grenoble
Published Compositions & Articles
Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag, Melscher Str. 1, 04299 Leipzig, Germany 1. Otohime (Concerto for Double Bass) FH 8049 – (March 2025) 2. Purushartha (Guitar solo piece in four movements) FH 3459 – (August 2025)
France Delatour, Editions Delatour DLT1571, Surprisentopie (August 2007) DLT 1572, Sans faiblir la nuit attend le soleil (August 2007) DLT 1573, Grisailles Vaporeuses (August 2007) DLT 1574, Tête à tête (August 2007)
International Association of Women in Music Journal
IAWMJournal, One Thousand and One Nights to Heal the Heart (Nov. 2017) https://www.dropbox.com/s/d8z71o89b921v72/2017 Fall IAWM Journal.pdf?dl=0
URI Momentum Magazine, A Range of Musical Possibilities (Fall 2017)
Le Journal ACROE-ICA, Eliane Aberdam, Compositrice, Un Parcours International, spring 2018
“The Grand Challenge of Interdisciplinarity in a Music Technology Course”
Co-authors: Ian Reyes, Ying Sun, and Eliane Aberdam. Edited by Wiline Pangle, Keeley Stanley-Bohn, Ann Dasen, Jay Batzner, and Heather Trommer-Beardslee. Chapter 8 in “Removing the Educational Silos, Models of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Education, A self-guided instructional journey for educators in multi- and interdisciplinary learning.” https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo186918434.html
Recordings
Statuettes featured in Luis Víquez’ album “Shades and Cycles: Music for Clarinet Alone” released October 2025, https://open.spotify.com/album/2ifKPXgTT8FdJE3Tlj8Ctp?si=GLvB4UB2TKKUhMLYGKB43Q
Purushartha, Released by Modern Classical X, 2 February 2025 https://Modernclassicalx.lnk.to/Purushartah
Grisailles Vaporeuses released January 24, 2020, on the album “MOTO CELESTE” on Navona Records. Recorded by Parma Recordings with Trio Casals: Sylvia Ahramjian, violin, Ovidiu Marinescu, cello, Anna Kislitsyna, piano. https://www.parmarecordings.com/january-24-2020-new-releases/
Sans Faiblir la Nuit Attend le Soleil (Ann Danis, violin, Christine Harrington, cello, Manabu Takasawa, piano), Cd Baby.Com/IndysFormat
CD Released 19 February 2008 Awaiting the Sun - CD
Album featuring works by Aberdam, Bradshaw, Juusela, Schmitz
Surprisentopie, for piano solo, released on New Ariel Recordings, 2007
https://jeffreyjacob.net/recordings/
On the “Contemporary American Eclectic Music for the Piano Vol. 9” album Jeffrey Jacob, Pianist. https://jeffreyjacob.net/recordings/