Young guitar virtuoso and educator Elden Kelly impresses audiences with his ability to combine jazz with a broad range of musical traditions. From bluegrass to ballads to fretless guitar and influenced by such diverse genres as jazz, neoclassicism, American roots, Hindustani and Turkish music, Kelly proves impossible to pigeonhole. He graduated from Boston’s prestigious New England Conservatory of Music with a degree in Contemporary Improvisation, and he also holds a graduate degree in Ethnomusicology from Michigan State.