Elliot Sloss started playing the cello when he was four years old, and in the 18 years since, his love for the cello and music has taken him many places. Elliot attends the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studies with Peter Wiley,Gary Hoffman, Nick Canellakis, Yumi Kendall, and Christine Lee. Previously, he studied with
Paul Widner and Joe Johnson at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada where he participated in the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists for many years.
Elliot is a three-time first place winner in the national round for strings in the Canadian Music
Competition. Elliot won three concerto competitions in 2019. He won the North York Music
Festival Competition and performed with the Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra. He won the
Taylor Academy Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition and the Toronto Symphony Youth
Orchestra Concerto Competition. Elliot is also a finalist at the 2025 Shean Strings Competition
in Edmonton. Outside of Canada, Elliot recently participated in the 2025 Isang-Yun Competition
in South Korea.
Elliot plays on a 1706 Giuseppe Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ cello made in Cremona, and a 1925
Victor Fetique bow made in Paris.