Ellen Jewett leads an active musical life as a recitalist, chamber musician and teacher. She has performed in major venues throughout the US, including Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, as well as in Europe, Japan, Africa and New Zealand with groups such as the New England String Quartet, the American Chamber Players, the New York Chamber Soloists, the Apple Hill Chamber Players, the Tchaikovsky Chamber Orchestra and the American Symphony. She is a founding member of Ensemble X as well as the Taliesin Trio, with whom she has been in residence at the Tanglewood Institute, the Spoleto Festival in Italy and at the Olympic Festival. As a member of the Audubon String Quartet she has performed around the US for the last three years. The quartet also coordinates an intensive string quartet seminar at the Chautauqua summer institute every year. Chamber music collaborations include performances with Yo Yo Ma, James Buswell, Eugenia Zuckerman, Anthony Newman and Marcus Thompson. Currently a member of McGill Faculty of Music in Montreal, Ellen Jewett has also served on the faculties of SUNY Stony Brook and Ithaca College. She received her Bachelor degree from Indiana University and her Master’s from SUNY Stony Brook. Her major teachers have been Joyce Robbins, James Buswell and Josef Gingold.