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• Zij is geboren op 6 oktober 1898 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• (Biographical Sketch) .

  Ellen Ballon was born on October 6, 1898 in Montreal of Jewish Lithuanian immigrant parents. She started taking piano lessons at an early age, beginning her studies at the Conservatorium at McGill under Clara Lichtenstein, a former student of Liszt , in March 1904. She gave her first concert appearance at the age of five. In 1906 she moved to New York to study piano with Rafael Joseffy and harmony with Rubin Goldmark. She performed for Sir Wilfred and Lady Laurier in New York ‎(1909) and made her New York debut in 1910.
  
  In 1914, she moved to Switzerland to study with Josef Hofmann but, due to conditions of the war, returned to New York in 1916. She performed as a concert pianist throughout these years, and became a pupil of Wilhelm Backhaus in 1925. Ellen Ballon toured Europe in 1927, and upon her return to Canada, established a scholarship in music at McGill University. She toured Canada in 1928, and in 1934 returned to England to live. Her career suffered a fallback in 1938 when she broke her right ankle getting out of a taxicab. Two years later her leg had sufficiently healed to resume her concert performances, so she recommenced her career and moved to New York City.
  
  In 1942, both of Ellen Ballon's parents died, and she began to actively participate in war efforts. Longtime friend and admirer of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, she performed many of his works and commissioned his Concerto No. 1, giving the premiere (1946) in Rio de Janeiro under the composer's direction. She also gave the US premiere (Dallas SO under Antal Dorati) and the Canadian premiere (CBC Montreal studio performance by the CSM under Désiré Defauw) in 1947, repeating the work in 1951 with the CSM and in 1953 with the TSO. Ellen Ballon was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Music by McGill University in 1954. She married Colonel Theodore LaFleur Bullock of Quebec in 1958 and died in Montreal on December 21, 1969.
  
  Further in the the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
  http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000183
  
  Further on Naxos Label
  http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/13512.htm
  
  Ellen Ballon/Ernest Ansermet Chopin Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor - Part 1/4
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  The Story of the "Three Bares" at the McGill University campus, the fountain that started as a brainchild of Ellen Ballon.
  http://publications.mcgill.ca/mcgillnews/2005/11/12/the-story-of-the-three-bares/
  

• Zij is overleden op 21 december 1969 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, zij was toen 71 jaar oud.
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 20 juli 2012.

Gezin van Ellen Ballon

Zij is getrouwd met Theodore Lafleur Bullock.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 18 juni 1958 te New York NY, zij was toen 59 jaar oudTemple Emanu-El.

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