Eliot Krimsky

Teaches at Pioneer Works

Eliot Krimsky is a musician and composer who currently plays in the bands Glass Ghost and Here We Go Magic, composes for film, and produces other artists. In 2008, Krimsky and drummer Mike Johnson formed the band Glass Ghost, whose music has been described by the New Yorker as “elegant compositions of frosted indie pop,” and Time Out as “weird and mournful yet highly rhythmic.” Glass Ghost’s first album, Idol Omen, was released on Western Vinyl Recordings in 2009. The band has been been featured on HBO and NPR, and has played shows with artists such as Dirty Projectors, Sharon Van Etten, Deerhoof, White Rabbits and Here We Go Magic. Krimsky, who’s been playing piano and writing songs since age six, also currently plays keyboards with the band Here We Go Magic. In 2012/13 he performed with HWGM at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and in the UK, Montreal, and Mexico. Krimsky’s creative and evocative film scores have been featured at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, South by Southwest in Texas, and at the CUFF Festival Lincoln Center NYC. After receiving a B.A. from Tufts University in American Studies and a B.A from New England Conservatory of Music in jazz performance, Krimsky moved to New York, and co-founded the art-pop band Flying, releasing Just One Second Ago Broken Eggshell in 2006, and Faces of the Night in 2008. He is currently getting his M.A. at The New School for Media Studies in New York City, where he’s exploring the convergence of technological mediation and music. In 2014, he looks forward to the release of the new Glass Ghost album Life X, an artists residency with Performance Space 122, where he will be developing a mediated Glass Ghost concert, and a new Here We Go Magic album.