Monica Ashton

Monica Ashton is a U.S. composer originally from New York who began playing piano at age 3. She studied music at Manhattanville College and took composition graduate courses at SUNY Purchase. After working as a lawyer in New York in the 1990s, she turned full-time to music after 9/11. She writes in many genres, including jazz, film, chamber, song cycles, liturgical, and musical theater, and also works as a producer, arranger, accompanist, and teacher.