Violinist Ellen Jewett has performed around the world and throughout the United States in major venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall and the Kennedy Center. For eleven years, Jewett was a member of the prize-winning Audubon Quartet.

Hailed by The New York Times for their “strikingly beautiful, luminescent sound,” the quartet performed throughout the United States and abroad, and coordinated an intensive string quartet seminar every summer at the Chautauqua Institute in New York. Other chamber music collaborations include performances with Yo-Yo Ma, Maxim Vengerov, Colin Carr, John O'Conor, James Campbell, Eli Eban, Rusen Gunes, Johannes Moser and Idil Biret.

An avid performer of contemporary music, Ellen has performed many premieres and worked closely with such composers as Phillip Glass, Sir Michael Tippett, Leon Kirchener and Kamran Ince and has performed with important New York-based contemporary music ensembles such as Continuum, Sequiter and Ensemble X. She received her Bachelor of Music at Indiana University and Master of Music at the State University of New York, Stony Brook where her major teachers were Joyce Robbins, James Buswell and Josef Gingold. Ellen Jewett has performed as one of the concertmasters of the Borusan Philharmonic and Bilkent Orchestra and is currently the founder and artistic director of Klasik Keyifler, an NGO that presents chamber music concerts in unusual venues throughout Turkey.

Jewett is serving in a temporary capacity for the Spring 2024 semester at Shenandoah Conservatory where she is working with the violin studio of Akemi Takayama. She has also been a faculty member at institutions such as McGill University, SUNY Stony Brook, Ithaca College, and Ankara University. Ms. Jewett has recorded for Centaur, Chandos and recently released a CD of Turkish solo music on Naxos.

Photo by Hakan Aydoğan