Great orchestras Stephen Ellery has conducted include the LSO in London, the Krakow Filharmonia and Osaka Philharmonic among others.

Stephen Ellery studied as a composer and conductor in Crakow, Poland and then specialised in conducting in St Petersburg, Russia, under Maestro Ilia Musin from 1991-95.

In UK since 2005 he has given many concerts with the Locrian Ensemble of London. Also, after successful performances at the Rottingdean Arts Festival he has recently been named Associate Conductor of the English Concert Orchestra. He is the main conductor of the Musica Santangelo Opera Company in Tokyo (future productions include Mozart's Don Giovani, and Magic Flute) and a regular guest of many orchestras in Poland.

Other orchestras Stephen Ellery has worked with include Tokyo City Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic, Gunma Symphony, Tokatsu Opera, Kansai 21 Century, Filarmonica de la ciudad de Mexico, Sinfonica Nacional de Peru, Cracow Philharmonic, Bialystok Philharmonic, Lublin Philharmonic, Kielce Philharmonic, Sofia Festival, Silesian Philharmonic, Olsztyn Philharmonic, Radom Chamber Orchestra, Plock Symphony Orchestra Krasnoyarsk Academic Symphony, Vladivostok Pacific Ocean Symphony, Yakutsk State Opera, Hanoi Philharmonic, Calcutta Music Foundation Orchestra and the Ghana National Symphony.

As well as the core Mozart, Verdi and Puccini operatic repertoire he is a keen advocate of russian masterpieces such as Evgeni Onegin, Yolanta, Boris Gudonov and the rarely performed Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh.

Stephen Ellery has won prizes in conducting competitions in Poland, Rumania, and UK.