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Ellen’s All
About the Trio concert/lecture
series at the Kerrytown Concert House returns for fall, exploring various
aspects of the jazz piano trio. Take a behind-the-scenes look at
the foundations of jazz with the some of the region's
all-stars (the next edition is Sunday, September 18, and the series continues through December).
Ellen’s summer teaching gigs included Phil
Dwyer's Academy of Culinary and Musical Arts, Qualicum Beach (Vancouver
Island)
July
18–25, and
the Centrum
Jazz
Workshop July 25–Aug 1 in Port Townsend, Washington.
Ellen recently conducted California and South Dakota
All State Jazz Ensembles (February and May respectively), finished
a commissioned arrangement of Red River Valley for the
Westchester Jazz Orchestra,
and arranged Dave Liebman's Le Roi du Monde for Chamber
Jazz Ensemble with Dave as guest soloist.
Ellen finished in the top 30 percent at the Potowatomi
Trail Marathon in April and will run running the Pineland Farms 50K
in Maine
on May 30.
Wishing Well continues to get good reviews.
See some samples at AllAboutJazz,
JazzWax and
Swing2Bop.com,
or visit the “Reviews” page.
Here at last! Ellen’s
new CD, Wishing
Well, was released on January 15, 2010 with a sold-out concert
at the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor, featuring the
Quartet and special guests, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and saxophonist
Andy Haefner.
In January 2009 Ellen
completed an ascent of Argentina’s Aconcagua, the highest
peak
in
the Americas
(22,840
feet).
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