Elliott Goldkind has composed music for diverse media, ranging from orchestral and chamber music to film, television, and commercials. His film scoring work has led to collaborations with Jeff Buckley, David Mamet and many talented young directors.

His classical/concert music has been performed throughout the United States and Western Europe. He studied with Chester Biscardi, Meyer Kupferman, Stephen Dembksi, and Joel Naumann. While finishing his doctoral work at the UW-Madison, he helped revive the UW-Madison Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a group that is dedicated to performing the music of Wisconsin students/composers.

Stylistically, Goldkind's music ranges from lyrical to nails-on-blackboard. Ideally, he writes with pen and paper, leaving it up to "real musicians" to perform. However, for film and commercial applications, various electronic/digital approaches rear their ugly heads as well.

He was a founding member of the not-too-legendary New York rock bands "Bones Jones and the Jones Tones," "Hodgepodge Lodge," and "Freak of Nature." Like too many others, Elliott is a native New Yorker living in Los Angeles, where he is trying to sell his soul to the highest bidder. And he's still ABD.