Eli Winter
Bio
Eli Winter is a composer, self-taught guitarist, essayist, and Houston native. His music synthesizes aspects of folk, rock, jazz, and devotional music, maintaining a waggish disregard for genre constraints emblematic of Chicago, his adopted hometown. Across six LPs and counting for labels like Three Lobed and American Dreams, the scope of his music has grown from guitar soli to include instrumental duets and bandleading. He’s collaborated with a wide range of artists live and on record, including Yasmin Williams, jaimie branch, Caroline Rose, David Grubbs, Cameron Knowler, Asher White and Ryley Walker, and leads a trio featuring Chicago musicians Sam Wagster (pedal steel guitar) and Tyler Damon (drums). He is a 2025 Ucross Fellow in Music Composition and a 2021 Luminarts Fellow in Creative Writing.