Elizabeth Ann Larson, violinist, began her studies at the age of 3 and gave her recital debut at the age of 6. One year later, she gave her orchestral solo debut performing with the Milwaukee Symphony in a series of 10 concerts. She went on to solo with the Boston Pops at age 11. Since then, she has performed concerts throughout the world and has numerous prestigious honors to her credit. The Boston Globe has praised her playing as having “great charm and refinement…and capable of breathtaking virtuosity.” She has performed in such halls as Symphony Hall, Boston with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, Paul Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Victoria Hall, Geneva, as the featured soloist in a concert honoring Lord Yehudi Menuhin on the day of his death.Her solo tours have brought her to four continents in concerts throughout the U.S., Japan, England, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Finland, Taiwan, South Korea, Estonia and India. As an invited member of Yehudi Menuhin’s prestigious Camerata Lysy, she toured as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and in South Africa.
Elizabeth has been heard on radio on NPR, both in a feature program aired throughout the U.S. and also live in performance from the Chicago Public Library. In Korea, her performances have been broadcast both on radio and Korean National TV. As an avid chamber musician, Eliz abeth has collaborated in a series of chamber music performances with Gidon Kremer, Boris Pergamenschikow, and Eugene Istomin at the Kronberg Festival in Germany and has been a Resident Artist at festivals including the Banff Festival for the Arts, the Caramoor Festival, New York, where she collaborated with pianist Joseph Kalichstein, and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. Presently, she is a member of the Credo Trio, the performance and touring ensemble of the Credo Festival, giving concerts and workshops on integrating music, work, and faith for college students throughout the U.S.
Elizabeth holds a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance from Yale University, where she was a student of Peter Oundjian. She has also received a performance degree as a Postgraduate student with Yfrah Neaman from the Guildhall School of Music in London, and did her undergraduate studies with James Buswell at the New England Conservatory of Music and Franco Gulli at Indiana University, majoring in Violin Performance and minoring in English.
This season, Elizabeth will be performing as recitalist and chamber musician in concert series throughout the U.S. and Europe. A strong proponent of outreach and education, she will continue her participation in bringing live presentations to places such as hospitals, prisons, and special schools. She also continues to serve as Managing Director and chamber music coach for Angelos Mission Ensemble, a 10-week intensive chamber music program dedicated to the development of young leaders in chamber music and the arts. In the summer, she will return to the festivals of Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, C redo Festival and Masterworks, where she performs and is on faculty each summer. Elizabeth has served as the Director and Instructor at the Geneva Conservatory of Music (www.genevaconservatory.net), a music school in New York City, which she founded in 2002 and has been on faculty at Biola University since February, 2010.