Ellen Dickinson holds the master of music degree in organ from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, and the Bachelor of Arts in music from Yale College. She has been Director of the Yale Freshman Chorus for the past three seasons, and is in her fifth season as Director of the Yale Summer Chorus. She is Music Director at Norfield Congregational Church in Weston, Connecticut, and has been music director at Tabor Lutheran Church in Branford, Simsbury United Methodist Church, and First United Methodist Church of Shelton. She has taught music and chorus at the University of Bridgeport and High School in the Community in New Haven.
As an undergraduate, Ellen was co-chair and summer carillonneur of the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs. She has attended the Summer Academy at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, Netherlands. In June of 2000 she played an advancement recital to become a Carillonneur Member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. She has performed carillon recitals throughout the country.
On January 18, Ellen and Malcolm Dickinson were married in Battell Chapel. Music was provided by a choir of 100 voices, a saxophone sextet, and the carillon. They live in Old Greenwich, CT.