Dr. Ellen Elder
Professor
Bio
Dr. Ellen Price Elder is Professor of Piano at the University of Southern Mississippi where she teaches applied piano at the graduate and undergraduate levels and piano pedagogy. An active performer and collaborator, she has appeared throughout the United States, and in South America and Europe as soloist, collaborative pianist, and masterclass clinician. Her students have earned numerous awards and distinctions, received full assistantships and scholarships to leading graduate programs, and hold faculty positions in the United States, China, and South America.
She has won multiple national and international awards in both performance and teaching (four-time Steinway & Sons Top Teacher Award). Her collaborative recordings include Indefatigable (Global Music Award Silver Medal), and On the Horizon. She is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician, and has served as President of the Mississippi Music Teachers Association and Hattiesburg Music Teachers League.
- Piano Performance and Pedagogy (DMA) - University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2002)
- Piano Performance and Literature (MM) - University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1999)
- Piano Performance (BM) - University of Southern Mississippi (1997)
Applied Piano
Chamber Music
MED 452/MED 552 (Piano Pedagogy I)
MED 453/MED 553 (Piano Pedagogy II)
MED 101 (Class Piano I)
MED 102 (Class Piano II)
MED 201 (Class Piano III)
MED 202 (Class Piano IV)
- Music Teachers National Association
- College Music Society
- American Liszt Society
- Mississippi Music Teachers Association
- Hattiesburg Music Teachers League