Elaine Chelton has performed at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Denmark, Paris, Russia, Hong Kong & Japan as a piano soloist for the New York City Ballet.  She has premiered new ballets by Eliot Feld, Boris Eifman, Liam Scarlett & Robert Binet and has worked with Alexi Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon & Susan Stroman. She was featured in a PBS Broadcast of NYC Ballet Live at the Chatalet Theatre in Paris and has also performed at the Vail International Festival of Dance & Dancer’s Workshop in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She studied piano with Zenon Fishbein, Morey Ritt & Leon Pommers and composition with Hugo Weisgall.  She composed the music for “God’s Country”, which was an official selection of the New York Musical Theater Festival in 2013. “Voice of the City” received a workshop production at the Human Race Theatre in Dayton, Ohio where it was named one of the top ten best musicals. She has made 2 CD’s of ballet music for Roper Records and her music is featured on Luellen Abdoo’s CD “Luango”. She was honored with the John Castellini Silver Jubilee Award from Queens College which is her alumni, is a recipient of an Anna Sosenko Grant & a member of the Dramatists Guild.