Christian Ellenwood is a composer, recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral clarinetist. He has composed several works for clarinet, as well as pieces for chamber ensembles, choir, wind ensemble, and strings. His compositions have been performed at prestigious festivals and concert venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, the World Saxophone Congress, ClarinetFest, and the Chamber Music National Festival/Music for All. Recent commissions include a new quintet for clarinet and strings, commissioned by Vandoren for the winner of the 2015 Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition. His compositions have also been broadcast over Chicago's WFMT and the Wisconsin and Nebraska Public Radio networks.

Christian has performed with the Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet, the Telluride Chamber Music Festival, the San Francisco-based Ives Quartet, the EastWind Quintet, and is frequently heard in live radio broadcasts on Wisconsin Public Radio. He has presented solo and chamber music recitals throughout the United States and Pacific islands of
Japan, Guam, and Hawaii. He performs as principal clarinetist with the Skylight Opera of Milwaukee, the Woodstock Mozart Festival, and Bel Canto of Milwaukee; and he performs
frequently with the Milwaukee Ballet, Madison Symphony Orchestra, and the Madison Opera. His clarinet playing can be heard on the Albany Records release, Music of Chris
Theofanidis, and on CD projects produced by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he serves as Professor of Clarinet.