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Dr. Ellen Weller
Assistant Professor-World Music Office: (760) 744-1150 ext 3949 email: eweller@palomar.edu
Courses Taught:
Music Appreciation Fundamentals of Music Music Theory Music Skills World Music Intro to Jazz
Education
2002 Ph.D. in Music-Critical Studies and Experimental Practices. University of California, San Diego. 1992 M.A., Music--Composition. Queens College, City University of New York. 1983 B.A., Music. Queens College, City University of New York. 1978 Music Performance Major (flute), California State University of California, Northridge. 
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About Ellen Weller
Multi-winds/Pianist/Ethnomusicologist/Improvisor/Composer Ellen Weller divides her musical performance activities between improvisation, jazz, klezmer and classical music. An active member of San Diego's Trummerflora Collective and one of the original members of Maiden Voyage, an all-female big band out of Los Angeles, Weller has performed with George Lewis, Mark Dresser, Bert Turetzky, Vinny Golia, Lisle Ellis, Mike Woffard, Holly Hofmann, Joe Marillo, Anthony Davis, Muhal Richard Abrams, David Borgo, Jason Robinson, Nathan Hubbard Skeleton Key Orchestra, Lesli Dalaba, Carla Kihlstadt, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Hans Fjellestad, Vanessa Tomlinson, Marcos Fernandes, Michael Dessen, Michael Friedman, Farhad Bahrami,and the Second Avenue Klezmer Ensemble. She has appeared at several festivals, including the SF Alt and Edgetone Festivals in San Francisco, Spring Reverb (San Diego), and the Big Sur Sound Shift. Her compositions have been performed in New York, Detroit, San Diego and Los Angeles, and includes music for the 1996 UCSD revival production of Terminal directed by Joseph Chaiken. Her past research has focused on multicultural performance in San Diego, public arts funding, cultural tourism, and the music of war. Instruments/Styles Studied and Performed Flute, piccolo, piano, fife, recorder, guitar, alto, soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones, soprano, bass and contra-alto clarinets, alto vocal technique, “windrum.” Extended techniques all instruments. Jazz (be-bop, modal, Latin, free, funk), Afro-Cuban (salsa, danzón, cha), Jewish music (Klezmer, Yiddish theater repertoire and Ladino), Broadway, Western European classical, experimental/avant garde, cross-cultural collaboration.  Discography (audio
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