Elissa May Murphy (EMM)
M.A. – Music Education
Eastman School of Music – University of Rochester (’21E)
B.M. – Flute Performance, Arts Leadership
Crane School of Music – SUNY Potsdam (’15)
Multi-Instrumentalist
Performing Member:
B Sharp Music Club
Ensemble and Chamber Music Collaborations:
Brighton Symphony (flute), Greece Symphony (flute), Onondaga Civic Symphony (flute), Masterworks Chorale (clarinet), Alliance Wind Trio (narration), OSSIA New Music Ensemble (flute), Eastman Graduate Conducting Orchestra (flute), final draft ensemble (clarinet) of Austen’s Pride: A New Musical of Pride and Prejudice, and Numerous student composition premieres and studio collaborations (Eastman School, Crane School)
Musical Theatre:
JCC Centerstage – Pittsford, NY (Ragtime, Indecent)
Blackfriars Theatre – Rochester, NY (Spamalot!, Jerry’s Girls, Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, Rocky Horror, Avenue Q)
The Aquinas Institute of Rochester (Something Rotten, Legally Blonde, Oliver)
McQuaid Jesuit (My Fair Lady, Chorus Line, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Fiddler On The Roof)
Our Lady of Mercy Academy (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Upcoming Projects:
Several commissioned projects in progress for solo woodwind literature by today’s leading composers… Stay tuned!
Music Educator
Elissa is currently the director of elementary bands at her alma mater, the Whitesboro Central School District.
Previous direction includes district-wide instrumental music at Southern Cayuga Central School in Aurora, New York, as well as long-term placements at The Aquinas Institute of Rochester, McQuaid Jesuit, French Road Elementary School (Brighton CSD), and private woodwind and composition studio lessons in the Western and Finger Lakes regions of New York State.
While living in Rochester, she served as Artistic Director of the Rochester Flute Association Flute Ensemble.
Conductor
An active conductor, Elissa recently conducted Frank Ticheli’s Shenandoah with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Symphony Band under the advisement of Drs. Thomas Gamboa and Scott Corley. She is honored to have received mentorship and conduct this program alongside Cln./Prof. Jason Fettig [President’s Own/University of Michigan].
Elissa has traveled around the United States to receive mentorship from Drs. Mark Scatterday, Michael Votta, Andrea Brown, Craig Potter, Courtney Snyder Ng, Trish Cornett, and Michael Haithcock among others. She was awarded the opportunity to conduct the fourth movement of the Brahms Requiem with guidance from the late Joseph Flummerfelt as part of SUNY Potsdam’s LoKo Festival of the Arts masterclass series.
With a love and sincere interest in collaboration, Elissa is eager to continue making music with people that love making music just as much as she does.
