Ellie Bauwens

Ellie Bauwens was born in Basel, Switzerland. She started playing piano at the age of 3 under the guidance of a Swiss-russian pianist and organist M. Aeberli-Lazareva. Ellie participated in her first international competition Val de Travers at the age of 6 and became a laureate, recieving the “Creativity Award” for her first composition "Bells of St.George", which she composed the same year. Since then she participated in more than 20 international and national competitions and became a laureate in each of them. Among the competitons are such as Gloria piano competition (Grand prix), Starts of Alps (1 prize), Global music competiton (Platinum prize), Schubertiade Riehen (Flying fingers prize) and others. In December 2023 Ellie participated in an International Lugano Competition where she won a scholarship to study with a pianist V. Ashkenazy, who since then became her piano teacher. Ellie started playing harpsichord in spring 2023 with internationally known harpsichordist V. Frey as her teacher. In May 2024 she won the First prize at the Swiss Junior Music Competition in the category of Old Music, performing on harpsichord. In 2023 Ellie became engaged in the programme “Talents or Bern” and is still presently its participant. She participates and gives solo concerts on piano and harpsicord all over Switzerland. In June 2024 Ellie gave a series of solo concerts where she performed among other pieces J.S. Bach's full Concerto in f-moll with swiss string ensemble Camerata Cromatica. In August 2024 Ellie was invited to play at the emission on swiss national radio. As well as playing Ellie composes and performs her pieces at the concerts and competitions.