大阪出身のバイオリニスト。現代音楽のC Dリリースを初め、スイス、ドイツ、アメリカ等で多数の新作品の世界初演を果たす。フランスのフォンテーヌブロー校より現代音楽賞を受賞し、グラミー賞を4度受賞した現代アンサンブルEighth Blackbirdとの公演が米名門紙ワシントン・ポストより高評価を得る。日本では名門セミナーいしかわミュージックアカデミーの受講生として石川県立音楽堂で独奏を行った。
豊田はオーバリン大学で学士号、イェール大学で修士号、ラトガース大学で博士号を取得し、各大学で複数の賞や全額奨学金を受ける。これまで客員助教授及び弦楽主任教授としてペンシルバニア州のゲティスバーグ大学音楽院でヴァイオリン、室内楽、楽典、音楽史を指導し、古代と現代の音楽を比較した専門書の共著者として出版も果たす。現在はイタリアのゼファー国際音楽祭のアーティスト教師として活躍している。
A native of Osaka, Japan, Dr. Elly Toyoda is a recording artist for the Cantaloupe Music label and performs actively across Asia, Europe, and North America. She has served for five years as Visiting Assistant Professor of Violin and Coordinator of Strings at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College teaching violin, chamber music, music theory, music listening, and contemporary music. Additional teaching roles have included; faculty-artist for Yale School of Music's Norfolk Chamber Music Festival; Lecturer at Rutgers University; violin and viola faculty at Lindeblad School of Music and SpeakMusic Conservatory; and guest artist and lecturer at the University of Texas-Austin and University of Oklahoma. Toyoda earned her degrees at Oberlin Conservatory (B.M.), Yale School of Music (M.M.), and Rutgers University (D.M.A). She is currently faculty-artist at Zephyr International Music Festival in Italy.
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Previously taught classes include: Applied Violin, Chamber Music, Aural Skills II, Introduction to Music Listening, Introduction to Contemporary Music, Literature of the Applied Instrument, Pedagogy of the Applied Instrument, Music Theory I, 20th and 21st century Performance Practice
"Historical Performance and the Ethos of Graphic Notation" from Historical Performance and New Music co-authored with Rebecca Cypess and David Kim (2023), Routledge
Featured in album “shade” by David Lang, Cantaloupe Records
Featured in album “More Essential Martin Bresnick: The Planet on the Table” by Martin Bresnick, Cantaloupe Records
Doctor of Musical Arts, Rutgers University
Master of Music, Yale University
Bachelor of Music, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory of Music
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Coordinator of Strings, 2020-2025
Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts
Lecturer, 2020-2021
