About Elizabeth
Elizabeth is obsessed with the disobedient, witchy women who have shaped musical and artistic history. She finds profound joy and fulfillment through discovering, promoting, and performing the works of women, BIPOC, LGBTQ, and other marginalized people. Whether the music was written hundreds of years ago or yesterday, Elizabeth sees it as a platform for radical change, cultural critique, and personal challenge. She is committed to working with a wide range of musicians, composers, and artists and has programmed the works of Isabella Leonarda, Florence Price, Henriëtte Bosmans and Hong Sungji.
After earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in Violin Performance in 2023, Elizabeth took time to work as a teacher, gigging violinist, and concertmaster. As the founding concertmaster of Intermountain Choral Artists and Symphony Orchestra, she performed many works for choir and orchestra written by world-renowned composers. During that time, Elizabeth also attended Berwick Academy at The Oregon Bach Festival where she collaborated as concertmaster with British forte-pianist and conductor Julian Perkins performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor and Giovanni Paisiello’s Sinfonia Funebre as part of OBF’s 2024 concert cycle.
Elizabeth was introduced to the world of historical performance during the final semester of her undergraduate degree. Now, she is studying Baroque Violin at The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and is actively involved in the early music scene in Maryland and beyond. As she studies the works of well-known musicians like Bach, Corelli, Geminiani, and Vivaldi, she continues to dig through the historically forgotten women who composed in cottages, convents, and covens alike.
Teaching is another one of Elizabeth’s passions. Her violin/viola studio focuses on technical expertise, repertoire building, performance experience, and music theory study. Elizabeth tailors her teaching style to the needs of each student, focusing on preserving the physical and mental health of growing violinists and violists. She has taught people from a variety of backgrounds and has adjusted commonly accepted techniques to fit the needs of students with limb differences, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, scoliosis, and other disabilities. Elizabeth views teaching as a uniquely humbling experience. She learns new things about the world from each of her students and enjoys the time she spends exploring music through the eyes of new musicians.
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