Ellen Rose, a Juilliard School graduate, since 1980, has served as Principal Viola of the Dallas Symphony.  She has performed with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Yo-Yo Ma in chamber music concerts and has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in the U.S., Europe and South America. She served on The Aspen music faculty from 1989-2002 and currently teaches at Southern Methodist University. Rose can be heard on two CDs on the Centaur Records label.  She has given master classes at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has been a performer and guest speaker at the Viola National Congresses in Sweden and the U.S. She has written two books: EXTREME VIOLA (a scale book) and VIOLA EXCERPTS PLUS.   In January, 2010, she presented a world premiere of a viola concerto dedicated to her by composer, Margaret Brouwer, that was commissioned by the Dallas Symphony. In March of 2012, she recorded the concerto with Jaap van Zweden conducting members of the DSO.   In 2010, she returned to Romania to do master classes and chamber music concert. In the summer of 2010, she joined the faculty of the Summer Institute in Budapest, Hungary . In November , 2012, she did a recital tour of China in Beijing, Shanghai and Kunming giving master classes at the Beijing Conservatory of Music and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as well as  coaching string ensembles. In July, 2013 she will be giving master classes in Moscow before going to festivals in Romania and Hungary.    As a fund raiser, she has worked with Children's Medical Center of Dallas to raise money for the children's cancer unit and has raised funds for The Nelson Center for abused and abandoned children.. Her recital fee in Kunming, China was donated to the Kunming International Academy to buy instruments and create scholarships. She was a volunteer counselor at the Dallas Pregnancy Resource Center.