Ruth Lomon (Nov. 7, 1930 – Sept. 27, 2017), was born in Montreal, Canada, she was born in Montreal and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She attended le Conservatoire de Quebec and McGill University. She continued her studies with Francis Judd Cooke at the New England Conservatory of Music and later with Witold Lutosławski at Dartington College in England. In 1998, Lomon became Composer/Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University. As composer-in-residence for Boston Secession, a professional choral ensemble directed by Jane Ring Frank, she composed Testimony of Witnesses, a full length oratorio based on the poetry of Holocaust victims and survivors.