Elijah J. Thomas (he/him/his) is a Black Philadelphia-born, Harlem-based flutist, multi-instrumentalist, educator and composer/experimentalist. Elijah studied woodwind performance/improvisation with Dick Oatts, Tim Warfield, Jr., Walter Bell, and Dr. Cynthia Folio; composition with Kevin Rodgers, Dr. Cynthia Folio, and Dr. Maurice Wright; and music education studies with Dr. Rollo Dilworth and Dr. Allison Reynolds. Elijah has held teaching positions with Temple University Music Prep, Settlement Music School, Tune Up Philly (Philadelphia Youth Orchestra), Education Through Music, and BASIS Independent Schools. He creates what he calls “enuff music”: music for Black healing and spiritual transcendence. Notable works include the commission and premier of his site-responsive work For Harlem for the new music organization Music At The Anthology (debuted at the Kente Royal Gallery in Harlem, NYC, October 2021); work with the International Contemporary Ensemble for their “Ensemble Evolution” partner program with The New School (2020-2022); winner of “Best Film Score” at the Pure Magic International Film Festival for the documentary short Fan of Cory (awarded February 2021 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands); and selection as one of ten commissioned composers of color to participate in the inaugural “Composing Inclusion” program, a joint collaboration between The Juilliard School, New York Philharmonic, and American Composers Forum (powered by the Sphinx Venture Fund, 2022). Elijah is Musical Director of the global street band performance organization Honk NYC!, whose mission is to “make events that reclaim, reuse, and redefine public space and connect communities through music-making, pageantry, audience participation, and education.”