Ellen Miner

Ellen Miner is a current graduate student at the University of North Texas studying

cello performance with Dr. Horacio Contreras, and is a graduate of Messiah

University with a B.A. in Music, having studied piano and cello with Dr. Patrice

Ewoldt and Dr. Ai-lin Hsieh respectively.

She has had extensive experience teaching beginning through advanced piano and

cello students, through both her own private studio and local schools of music in the

Central Pennsylvania and DFW areas. She utilizes the Suzuki method and other

pedagogical methods according to students' age and learning styles. Ellen is highly

attentive to proper technique in the beginning years, believing that a strong technical

foundation lays the groundwork for years of successful musical development and

satisfaction.

In addition to teaching, she is an avid orchestral and chamber musician, having played

with l’Association des Musiciens Amateurs d’Alsace and a Harp, Oboe, Cello trio at

l’École de Musique St. Thomas during her time in Strasbourg, France, as well as with

the Messiah University Symphony Orchestra, University of North Texas Concert

Orchestra, ensembles in the Lancaster International Piano Festival, and the Jubal

Quartet in York, Pennsylvania.