CREDITS * AWARDS / EDUCATION: Composer Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; Artists Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts; Grant from O'Donnell-Green Music & Dance Foundartiion; several grants from Meet the Composer; Bronze Medal - International Film & TV Festival. Masters of Arts degree in music composition from Columbia University. BA in music from Binghamton University. * DOCUMENTARY FILMS: "The Restless Conscience" by Hava Kohav Beller (nominated for an Academy Award for documentary film); "Turn To Me" by Murray Nossel; "Golden Threads" by Lucy Winer & Karen Eaton (featured on the P.O.V. series on PBS); "The Burning Wall" by Hava Kohav Beller (prize winner in several film festivals and released theatrically); Digital orchestration for the dance documentary "Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse", (nominated for an Academy Award, broadcast on PBS.) "Mekong Tipping Point" for Stimson Center. * FEATURE FILMS: "Broadway Damage" written & directed by Victor Mignatti (DVD available from Wolfe Video); "Comeback" rel. by Troma Films, dir by William Kelly. * TELEVISION: "NATURE: A Celebration Of Birds" on PBS; "GOOD OLD BOY" on Disney Channel & PBS Wonderworks; "NOVA: War Machines of Tomorrow" on PBS; NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER: "Lifestyles of the Wet & Muddy"; INTIMATE PORTRAIT: "Eve" on Lifetime Cable; ABC AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL "Seasonal Differences"; "MONSTERS: Pool Sharks" (syndicated); music for art video "NOSFERATU" featured on MTV's "ArtBreak" and PBS "New Television; "SESAME STREET": music and songs for more than 100 animations broadcast worldwide. "WAY COOL" all scoring for syndicated series. "MINORS", (winner of Academy Award in the student film category, featured on Showtime.) * SHORT FILMS: "Retractions"; "The Introduction"; "A Summer Tale"; "Little Dancer". CONCERT MUSIC / DANCE / THEATER: "Pipedreams" for organ and saxophone, featured on the CD "Contemporary American Organ Music" (Classic Masters); "Seven Soundscapes" recorded by the Hampshire String Quartet (Opus One Records). Elliot Sokolov has composed for many dance companies, including Joyce Trisler Dance Company, Verlezza Dance, Laura Glenn/Works, Rebecca Kelly Ballet. His music for the dance-theatre work "The Minotaur Among Us" was commissioned by mythologist Joseph Campbell, and choreographed by Jean Erdman. His children's musicals "The Nightingale" and "The Odyssey" published by Dramatic Publishing, and have been produced at schools all over North America. Former participant in the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop and the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop. Theater scores include "La Belle Au Bois" and "Selkie," produced by the Open Eye Theater. * POPULAR MUSIC: As half of the duo Air Force One, Elliot co-wrote and co-produced the dance single "See the Light, Feel the Heat" which was originally released on Streetwise Records in the mid-1980's and re-released on the CD complation "80's Underground Club Hits" in 2006 and "Essential House" in 2007. One of the first records featuring a totally sampled vocal (by President Ronald Reagan), it was a college radio and club favorite for years. * ADVERTISING: PSA's for UNHCR Darfur Aid; TV commercials for AT&T, Burger King, Charles Schwab, Duracell, FEMA, ITT Industries, PHARMA, Prestone, Theraflu, U.S. Census, United Technologies, UN Refugees.org, Weight Watchers, many others. * CORPORATE: music for a/v media for companies including Bellevue Hospital; Canon, Hale House, IBM, Lavine Group, Merck, North Shore Animal League, Pratt & Whitney, Sony, Technion, United Artists Theaters and others. As a PERFORMER on guitar, bass, and keyboards, he has played on commercial and film/tv scores; in various rock bands, in theater productions; Elliot Sokolov Ensemble at Edgeworks, sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.