Elliot Vaughan is currently working towards a BA in acoustic and electroacoustic music composition at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts. He composes, records and performs (primarily on the viola) professionally, as well as donating his time and talents to a range of peers' projects. The last year has seen Elliot's composition in the Dusty Flower Pot Cabaret's "The Valley of Ashes", various student plays, earning scholarships, placing in national competitions, selected for discussion at various symposiums, picked up by music teachers, being commissioned, etcetera. He resides in Vancouver's East Side, where he creates his music