A native of coastal Georgia, Ellie Jenkins (horn) is Associate Professor of Music at Dalton State College and Artist Affiliate in Horn at Berry College. An active performer, she is principal horn in the Carroll Symphony and the Chamber Players of the South, and second horn with the Rome Symphony. She toured Taiwan with the Atlanta Pops Orchestra, and for the past three summers has performed with the Classical Music Festival Orchestra in Austria. Dr. Jenkins holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (DMA), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (MM) and the University of Miami (BM). She has appeared as a recitalist in Italy, Brazil, and at several Southeast Horn Workshops, and is a column editor for The Horn Call, the journal of the International Horn Society, and recently was an invited panelist for the 2018 International Horn Symposium.