Eliane Aberdam was born in France in 1964. As a child, she studied the piano, solfege and harmony at the "Conservatoire National de Region" in Grenoble. She did her undergraduates studies in composition at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. In 1989, she entered the graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania where she studied with George Crumb, and obtained her Master degree in 1992. She completed her Ph.D. in Composition at U.C. Berkeley. In 1998-1999, she taught composition, theory and Music technology at the university of Northern IOWA. Her works are performed in Israel, France and the United States. She attended music festivals such as The Bartok Seminar in Hungary, June in Buffalo, the Académie d'Été in Paris and Voix Nouvelles in Royaumont (France). In 1995, she was selected by IRCAM for the Annual Course in electronic music and for the commission of PaRDeS, an electro-acoustic work for chamber ensemble and electronics. She is currently working on an opera with librettist Maurya Simon and on an electro-acoustic piece for treated voices.