She would go on to learn how to

play the piano and would come

up with piano chords for
melodies she heard on the radio.
She was able to transpose the
orchestra and chords in the
musical Evita and play them on
Piano. The end product has been
described as complex and
precise

Ellen was born in 1957. She was

Her mother realized that she had born prematurely and because of
the ability to recognize and learn this developed a condition
sound at a very young age. known as retrolental fibroplasias
or blindness of prematurity.

Ellen
Bordeaux

She is a master of improvisation

Ellen is a female savant, known
and learnt to improvise at an
for her musical skills and
early age. She would often hear a
memory. These skills began to
piece of music in one form, like
manifest at very young age, as
jazz and play it in another form,
young as six months old.
like classical.

She especially enjoyed

transposing TV commercials she
heard into piano chords that she
would play for her family.