Ellie Pruneau is a pianist, composer, and educator based in Boston, MA. She specializes in small group instrumentations, including piano trio, quartet, and voice with prepared piano. Her compositional style values the importance of combining many genres including classical, funk, video game, and indie. Pruneau’s compositional work earned her a place at the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead workshop in 2019, and the 2022 Alumni Commission for the Indiana University Jazz Department. As the co-leader of the Two Way Mirror project along with Mitch Selib, Pruneau creates programmatic work that encourages an open dialogue about mental health in the jazz community. She has performed with notable musicians Matt Wilson, John Raymond, and Terell Stafford. Her accompaniment on Amanda Gardier’s album Flyover Country (2019) was described as “percussive and harmonically sophisticated” by Downbeat Magazine. Other notable groups she has played with include the Tucker Brothers and the Liberation Music Collective.