Christopher Ellicott is a graduate of the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory where he earned his bachelor’s in guitar performance studying under Dr. Loris Chobanian. He was active for many summers as a participant in the Classical Guitar Workshop at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory and has also attended the Guitar Hamilton Program in Ontario, Canada.

For over 30 years Christopher has taught students of all ages and abilities in classical, folk, and rock on guitar, ukulele. He has served on the faculty of Lorain County Community College and at the Baldwin Wallace Community Arts School. He provides an individual approach with each student to best serve their musical goals.

Christopher performs frequently throughout the Cleveland area as a soloist as well as in the duo Sunday in the Park with his wife Karen (clarinetist), and he is a member of the Cleveland Guitar Orchestra. In 2016 he gave the world premiere of Variations on an Israeli Theme for Two Guitars and Orchestra by Loris Chobanian at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.