Paul Ellison on Teaching and the International Job Market for Performers

1. Music Careers: Why Teach? (audio)
2. Finding Your Place (audio)
3. Opportunities for Study Abroad (audio)
4. The International Job Market (audio)
5. Making Career Choices (audio)
6. Music Student & Music Careers (audio)

Profile - Paul Ellison

Paul Ellison, co-principal bass at the Aspen and Grand Teton Festivals, is Professor of Double Bass at Rice University´s Shepherd School of Music. In addition, his diverse international activities include chamber music, period instrument performance, and solo and duo performance, as well as workshops and master classes.

Mr. Ellison enjoyed 23 years as principal bass of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, several years as principal double bass of the Santa Fe Opera, and seven years as chair of strings at the University of Southern California.

Regular performances and master classes throughout North American and Europe include those with Da Camera (Houston), Strings in the Mountains (Steamboat Springs, Colorado), Aspen, Festival Domain Forget (Quebec), the Curtis Institute, Yale University, Banff (Canada), the Yehudi Menuhin School (Surrey, England), the Royal College (London), the Royal Northern College (Manchester), the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Festival Flaine de Musique (Flaine, France), Sarasota (Florida), Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music (Los Angeles), the Grand Teton Festival, and conventions of the International Society of Bassists in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago (Evanston), Austin, and Cincinnati, and in England, France, and Germany. Most recently, Ellison was in residence at Australia´s National Academy of Music in Melbourne as a guest artist and faculty member.