Ellie Mao has been played on NTS shows including Le Jardin w/ Sarah Davachi, with The Embroidered Purse first played on 8 April 2024.

ELLIE MAO MOK aka ELLIE MAO Mok received her training at Yenching University with a bachelor's degree from Julliard School in New York, Vienna and Teachers College and Columbia University. She has given numerous recitals in the United States, Paris, Vienna, the Caribbean, China and Hong Kong and as a soloist with several orchestras including Vienna's Radio Orchestra and Bach Society, Honolulu Symphony, Peking Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Philharmonia and she performed frequently in concerts of vocal chamber music in New York and Eastern cities. As a master teacher, she was invited several times by the Chinese government to tour the music schools in China where she coached hundreds of students. Her methods of vocal technique spread to all schools in China, even to northwest regions of Gansu and Qinghai. Discography: "An Anthology of Chinese Folk Songs" (Smithsonian Folkways) "In this charming collection of Chinese folk songs, Ellie Mao surveys the vast landscape of China’s music with her strong voice, from the Himilayas to the Pacific coast. These songs are often passed by word of mouth from generation to generation, sung in the fields, farmhouses, and festivals. Based on her understanding of Chinese culture, Ellie Mao works carefully to preserve the authenticity of the songs. Many of the songs featured in this anthology have appeared in various collections, but often have had no “public” performances, as “professional” folk singers had just begun to emerge in China at the time of this production. These songs were translated into the traditional Chinese dialect so that they could be more easily understood, but Ellie Mao provides listeners with the authentic Sichuanese dialect in several songs [Disc 2, tracks 1, 2, and 3]. The tracks of these albums provide small snapshots of the joy of life that pervades the spirit of the Chinese people, which can transcend the barriers of language." http://www.folkways.si.edu/ellie-mao/an-anthology-of-chinese-folk-songs/world/music/album/smithsonian