EMMIE ELLISÂ BIO
Future School Music Educator
Emmie Ellis began performing music from a young age. As a toddler, she and her family would regularly sing in front of their church. At the age of 5, she began playing the piano and violin, continuing these performance habits by playing string trios with her siblings and playing solo violin for her preschool graduation.
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Throughout grade school, she continued to meddle in musical knowledge and performance. By middle school, she began to devote more time to the violin, playing with her middle school and high school orchestras as well as the Indianapolis Youth Symphony Orchestra. Throughout middle and high school, she earned many performance awards and had many travel opportunities, including a performance with the Oklahoma City Youth Orchestra and a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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Emmie Ellis has also experimented with composition, writing songs for a student-written production of Alice and Wonderland at her high school and arranging music for strings classroom settings. She has also composed a short violin concerto that she performed with her school orchestra her senior year of high school.
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Aside from traditional orchestral music, Emmie Ellis has participated in other musical settings. Emmie Ellis has been a part of choirs as well as numerous barbershop quartets, one of which has sung the National Anthem at a baseball game at Victory Field in Indianapolis. She has also meddled in fiddle music. She plays and sings in a band called American Fools, which covers the songs of John Mellencamp.
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Emmie Ellis currently studies music education at Butler University, working with professors Larry Shapiro and Melanie Clapies on the violin. She plays in the Butler Symphony Orchestra, performing many orchestral works as well as playing music for the ballets. She teaches private music lessons at Bach to Rock Carmel for violin, viola, voice, and piano. Through this studio, has had the opportunity to lead week-long day camps with beginner musicians as well as introduce elementary students to instruments through advertising events at school festivals.