Ellen Rose
Adjunct Viola Faculty
Ellen Rose, a Juilliard School graduate, has served as principal viola of the Dallas Symphony since 1980. She has performed with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Yo-Yo Ma in chamber music concerts and has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in the U.S , Europe and South America. She served on the Aspen Music Festival faculty from 1989-2002 and currently teaches at Southern Methodist University. Rose can be heard on two CDs on the Centaur Records label. She has given master classes at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and Cleveland Institute of Music. She has been a performer and guest speaker at the Viola National congresses in Sweden and the U.S. She has written two books: Extreme Viola (a scale book) and Viola Excerpts Plus. In the summer of 2010, she will join the faculty of The Summer Institute on Budapest, Hungary.
Education
B.M. and M.M., The Juilliard School
Teaching
studio, repertoire class