Ellie Slorach
Young Associate Conductor
Overview
Ellie is a conductor based in the North West. She graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with a masters degree with distinction in conducting in 2018 after studying music at the University of Manchester.
Ellie is the Musical Director of Radius Opera, Chester Festival Chorus and Stafford Choral Society and the Associate Conductor of Manchester Chamber Choir. In 2015 she founded Kantos Chamber Choir. With Kantos, Ellie has been the director and chorus master for numerous recordings and performances including with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic on labels including Decca Classics. Ellie regularly directs for the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service and Sunday Worship broadcasts and directed Kantos in Rome and Assisi for broadcasts last summer.
In 2018, Ellie was on the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme studying conducting with Marin Alsop and the Women’s Conductors course run by the Royal Opera House and the National Opera Studio. She was recently selected to work with the BBC Philharmonic in a masterclass and studio concert and in June 2018 she was a prize-winner in Romania at the Gheorghe Dima International Choir Conducting Competition.
Having previously worked with many of the Hallé’s ensembles including the Hallé Choir, Ellie looks forward to taking up the role of Musical Director of the Hallé Youth Orchestra for the 2019-20 season. She will also give her debut concert performance with Manchester Chamber Choir in the autumn, as well as touring a new opera with Radius.
Ellie is very excited to be a part of the Romeo and Juliet team for New Adventures; she is delighted to work with the principal conductor, Brett Morris, and be among a group of passionate and creative young artists.