She was winner of the Westbourne Orchestral Society’s 2025 Concerto Competition and runner up in the 2022 Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra Soloist of the Year Competition. She has given numerous concerto performances across the UK including a London performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra conducted by Ben Glassberg, the Lalo Cello Concerto with the Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra at Milton Court and performances of the Dvořák Cello Concerto around the UK with orchestras conducted by James Ross.

In 2023, Ellen was selected to participate in a residency at the Lake District Summer Music Festival, working with Guy Johnston and Melvyn Tan. Over recent years she has given recitals across the UK including recent performances at Beaulieu Abbey, Charlton House, for the Knighton and District Concert Society in Wales and the Intermezzo Concert series in London.

Ellen was cellist of the Regency String Quartet who were mentored by the Doric Quartet through the Frost Trust Advanced Specialist String Ensemble Training Programme. The Regency Quartet were winners of the 2025 Royal Overseas League String Ensembles Prize and were selected as 2025/26 Kirckman Concert Society Artists. They performed at venues across the UK including Conway Hall, Wigmore Hall and Kings Place as well as giving a series of concerts in France through the Ferrandou Musique Residency.

Ellen joined the Solarek Piano Trio in 2024 and has performed with them around the UK including recitals in Wales for Rhyl Music Club, for the Schubert Society in London and at the Chapel Royal in Brighton. The trio has a particular interest in performing works by under-represented female composers.

Ellen has participated in masterclasses with Zuill Bailey, Marc Coppey, Gary Hoffman, Steven Isserlis, Maria Kliegel, Mischa Maisky, Phillipe Muller, Arto Noras, Miklós Perenyi and Alisa Weilerstein. She has also participated in IMS Prussia Cove and the Curtis Institute’s Young Artists Summer Program.

Ellen studied with Felix Schmidt, Christoph Richter and Guy Johnston at The Royal Academy of Music completing a Professional Diploma, Master’s with Distinction as well as a DipRAM for an outstanding final recital and a first class undergraduate degree. In 2022, Ellen premièred and recorded John Cooney’s Tendril for solo cello, composed for the Royal Academy of Music’s Bicentenary.

During her time at the Royal Academy of Music, Ellen was awarded several prizes for performance including the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize, the Royal Academy of Music’s Historical Women’s Composer Prize, the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize as well as the Katie Thomas Memorial Prize and Rhoda Butt Award. She won the 2024 Jacob Barnes Award for Learning, Community and Participation, an area of work in which she has a keen interest. The award enabled her to bring to fruition her own project offering music workshops in supplementary schools.

She previously studied with her uncle Dr Oliver Gledhill at Junior Guildhall as D’Addario Strings Cello Scholar and was awarded the Principal’s Prize in her final year.

In 2025, Ellen started the Arts at Elstree Concert Series for which she is the artistic director.

In addition to performance, Ellen teaches the cello at Mill Hill School, Belmont - Mill Hill Prep School and John Lyon School in London as well as teaching privately. She is based in North West London.