Ellen Rowe Bio

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Award-winning pianist, composer, arranger … and mountain climber, Ellen Rowe bring an eclectic mix of interests to the Lafayette Summer Music Workshop. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Rowe has composed, performed and recorded with the legendary Village Vanguard Orchestra, the BBC Jazz Orchestra, the U.S. Navy Commodores and the Berlin Radio Jazz Orchestra, as well as her own Ellen Rowe Quartet, but her day job is at the University of Michigan School of Music where she heads the department of jazz piano and contemporary improvisation. She also tours internationally, and teaches workshops and master classes at the Melbourne Conservatory, Cologne’s Hochshule fur Musik and London’s Royal Academy of Music, among others. Listen to tracks from her Ellen Rowe Quartet albums, “Sylvan Way” and “Denali Pass,” here.

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