Dr Ella Toovy's maintains an active versatile career performing chamber music and contemporary music. Her solo playing was praised as "a refined sonority, highly refined, full of expression and rich sound quality". She's a sought after teacher of cello and chamber music. She has performed as a soloist in Cuba and with the Rutgers Symphony orchestra as well as in tours and festivals in Germany, Spain, France, South Korea, Japan Hong Kong and China. 

Ella is a founding member of the Alexander Trio, with violinist Nitai Zori and pianist Michal Tal. Since its foundation the trio performs regularly in concerts series in Israel and abroad including in festivals such as the Fellicja Blumenthal, Upper Galilee Voice of Music chamber music festival, Israeli Music Festival, Cerdanya Music festival, Psanterim festival and many other concert series. The Trio performs the core chamber music for piano trio but also expands its horizons to other less performed works of the standard repertoire as well as performing and premiering many works by Israeli composers. The trio regularly collaborates with additional partners such as violists Shuli Waterman, Guy Ben Zioni, Yoram Youngerman, oboists Dudu Carmel, clarinetists Ilya Schwartz and Danny Erdman. Lately the Trio performs many of its concerts with violist Tali Kravitz as a piano quartet. 
 
Ella served as the principal cellist for the Netanya-Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra and played intensively as member of the reputable Israeli Contemporary Players, she co-curates a series of chamber music concerts in Beit Yizhak, served as cello faculty at the Manhattan School of music precollege division, the NY Summer Music Festival and Waterville Valley chamber music festival. In New York she was the founder and artistic director of the Link Ensemble - a ‘Pierrot’ sextet performing chamber and contemporary music.

Since 2017 Ms Toovy served on the faculty at the Buchman Mehta School of Music at the Tel Aviv university as part of the contemporary music workshop and teaches cello pedagogy there, at the Givatayim conservatory she heads the string and chamber music departments. She regularly works with the Jerusalem Music Center programs for advanced young players, and is part of the faculty at the national cello summer course "Chill Bagalil".

Ella holds a DMA from Mason Gross School at Rutgers University and a Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem with Professor Shmuel Magen. She continued her studies in the USA with Mr. Alan Stepansky and Mr. Jonathan Spitz. Additionally, she holds a Bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern Studies.

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