Ellen H. Rowe
Associate Professor and Chair of Jazz Piano & Improvisation Studies
elrowe@umich.edu
734-647-6297
Professor Rowe, jazz pianist and composer, studied with Rayburn Wright and Bill Dobbins at Eastman School of Music. Prior to her appointment at Michigan, she served a director of Jazz Studies at the University of Connecticut.
Winner of the Hartford Advocate Reader's Poll for Best Acoustic Jazz, Ms. Rowe has performed at jazz clubs and on concert series throughout the U.S. and has toured in Germany, Holland Switzerland, Ireland, Poland and Australia. Also active as a clinician, she has given workshops and master classes at the Melbourne Conservatory, the Hochschule für Music in Cologne, and the Royal Academy of Music in London in addition to many appearances as a guest artist at festivals and universities around the country.
When not leading her own trio, Ms. Rowe is in demand as a collaborator, having performed with a wide variety of jazz artists including Kenny Wheeler, Gene Bertoncini, Tom Harrell, John Clayton, Harvie Swartz and Jiggs Whigham. Recently she was a guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on NPR. Ms. Rowe's compositions and arrangements have been performed and recorded by jazz ensembles and orchestras around the world, including the Village Vanguard Orchestra, U.S. Navy Commodores, Eastman Jazz Ensemble, Manhattan School of MusicJazz Ensemble, Berlin and NDR Radio Jazz Orchestras, London Symphony, DIVA and the Perth Jazz Orchestra.
Ms. Rowe has also been selected as conductor for all-state jazz ensembles around the country and has been an invited clinician at the Music Educators National Conference Eastern Division Convention and the International Association of Jazz Educators Convention.
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