Ellen Rowe, jazz pianist and composer, is currently the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan. Ellen has released six CDs as a leader including her most recent, “Vinton’s Cove”. Her “Momentum” octet was featured at the JEN Conference in 2022 and at Dizzy’s Club in March of 2023. Her compositions and arrangements are published by Kendor Music (now Excelsia), Doug Beach Music, Brava Publishing, and Sierra Music Publishing and have been performed by the Village Vanguard Orchestra, BBC Jazz Orchestra, U.S. Navy Commodores, Berlin and NDR Radio Jazz Orchestras, DIVA, and the Perth Jazz Orchestra. Ellen has received commissions from the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra, Minnesota, Illinois, and Florida Music Educators, Fred Sturm Commissioning Project, and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, and has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Ucross Foundation.