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Members: Ellen Folk.

Ellen has been playing violin for 12 years and has been to 12 consecutive North Carolina Suzuki Institutes, where she has worked with Dr. Jorge Ricter, members of the Serafin Quartet, Terry Durbin, Joanne Bath, Barbara Memory, Gail Acosta, James Hutchins, Rocky Digeorgio, and many other wonderful people. She has performed in a group at the Galaxy Palace Theater in Magic Kingdom Walt Disney World, Arts Alive, International Festival, in several fundraisers, in RenoFest, and in many other places and events. She has made over 170 total performances, including many at the church she attends.

Ellen has attended 6 All-Region Orchestras. Her most current All-Region ranking was 4th chair first violin. Ellen has also attended 4 All-State Orchestras, with the highest seating being Principle 2nd violin. She participated in the Florence Youth Symphony Orchestra for 4 years.

She is a high school senior and is an IB full diploma candidate. She finished the Suzuki violin school two years ago and currently studies violin with Dr. Sherry Woods.

She has applied to Clemson, College of Charleston, and Elon University. She will double major in Computer Science and Music Technology. If she attends College of Charleston, she will major in Computing in the Arts and minor in music.

Along with violin, she plays some cello.

A note from Ellen:
I absolutely love my music. I thank God for giving this gift to me, for enabling me to be able to do this so well. I pray He will allow me to do this for the rest of my life. The ultimate dream: being a professional violinist. Not one that plays classical music; one that goes on tours with bands, plays backup in band albums. That kind of work. How awesome would it be to get to play violin for hundreds, thousands of people? To be able to wake up every morning and say "I get to play music today. That is my job." That would be amazing. I want to rock the world.

I may still be finding my sound, but I love my music.
It's an expression of who I am.
something I've known since I was 5. for as long as I can remember.
I just hope everyone who hears it can feel my love for it.

I believe in the power of music. It's power to make you cry, laugh, think, remember.
I want to use music to make people do those things.

Live for Him.
Rock out.
Never Forget.
quite simple, really.


Repetoire
-Suzuki Violin School, all 10 volumes
-Mozart Violin Concerto in A Major (book 9)
-Mozart Violin Concerto in D Major (book 10)
-Mozart Violin Concerto in G Major
-Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major 1st movement (regarded as one of the most difficult pieces to play)
-all the common wedding pieces (Here Comes the Bride, Canon, Jesu, Ave Maria, Trumpet Voluntary, Wedding March, and many more)
-Wieniawski Concerto Number 2 2nd Movement: Romance
-Preludium and Allegro
-1st movement Bruch Violin Concerto in G minor