 Ellaway lives in New York where he is artistic director of OpusYou, and is a Fellow at Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University.Born in Abergavenny, South Wales, Ellaway was educated locally before gaining an organ scholarship to Keble College, Oxford in 2002 and graduating in 2005  He made his professional conducting debut at age 21 with members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Welsh National Opera in Abergavenny.He has since worked with several prominent orchestras including the Academy of Ancient Music, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, and performed at the Lincoln Center in New York City for the first time in 2014, conducting performances of George Balanchine's "Concerto Barocco", "Kammermusik No.