First Name:
Dr. Ellie W.
Last Name:
McCormack
Main Title:
Associate Professor of Cello
Office Location:
Room 314, Broyhill Music Center
Phone Number:
828-262-7501
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Dr. Ellie W. McCormack is an associate professor of cello at Appalachian State University. She has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra player in the United States, France, Italy, Turkey, Japan, and Korea with groups as Stonehill Trio, New England Chamber Ensemble, Menotti Lyric Opera, Arizona Opera, Pacific Music Festival, Boston Bel Canto Opera, Handel and Haydn Society, and Boston Baroque, to name a few. In 2009, she was invited to perform and to participate in a roundtable discussion as a panelist at the "Haydn in London" Symposium in Boston, which included world-renowned conductor Sir Roger Norrington.
Dr. McCormack has received awards and scholarships including the Anna Rosenzweig String Award, the Regents' Full Scholarship Award, and the Boston University Full Scholarship Award, among others. Her students have been chosen to participate in state and national-level honors orchestras, including the ASTA National High School Honors Orchestra. Moreover, her students were chosen as a winner of the Director's Choice Award at the Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto Competition in 2014 and MMEA All Eastern District Senior Festival Audition in 2015. She has presented master classes and concerts at some of the most prestigious performing arts institutions and universities in the United States and internationally. Dr. McCormack has taught at Arizona State University, Northeastern University, The College of St. Mary Magdalen, and Stonehill College. She appears as a regular guest artist at Adnan Menderes University State Conservatory, Kusadasi, Turkey.
Dr. McCormack loves art, literature, cooking, and traveling. An enthusiastic outdoor activist, she enjoys fishing and kayaking. She holds a DMA from Arizona State University (Cello Performance), MM from Boston University (Historical Performance), MM from New England Conservatory with Honors (Cello Performance), BM from New England Conservatory (Cello Performance).