Profile for Michelle Elliott

MICHELLE LEE ELLIOTT, VIOLIN, was a founding member of the Vinca Quartet from 2003-2008, during which time the quartet was awarded a string quartet residency with the Tákacs Quartet at the University of Colorado. The Vincas were prizewinners of the Fischoff, Chesapeake, Plowman, and Premio Paolo Borciani Competition and they were selected to participate in the Banff Summer Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland, and the Emerson Quartet’s Carnegie Hall Training Workshop. Michelle has performed as concertmaster for the Elgin and Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestras as well as the Yale Philharmonia. Summer programs include a fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival, the International Masterclasses at Kloster Schontal, Meadowmount, Austin Chamber Music Festival, and Manchester Music Festival in Vermont. Michelle received her BM degree from the University of Illinois, as well as MM and AD degrees from Yale University. She also received her DMA at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Michelle’s primary teachers include Edward Dusinberre, Syoko Aki, Danwen Jiang, Sherban Lupu, Dr. Myron Kartman, Zenaida Gilels, Terrine Gomez, and Mary Nagy. Michelle currently resides in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and teaches privately in her home studio and in the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra’s lessons program at the Erickson Boys and Girls Club. She is associate concertmaster of the LSO and a founding member of Ensemble Druzhba. She joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in the fall of 2022.