Elizabeth Adams, violin

Elizabeth Adams, violin, has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe as violinist, violist, and pianist, and in settings from solo to chamber music to orchestra. Since moving to Washington, Elizabeth has been in demand as a versatile performer, teacher, adjudicator, and clinician. She is a member of the Washington Concert Opera orchestra and performs regularly with the Richmond and Maryland Symphonies and in Baroque and modern chamber ensembles in the Washington/Baltimore area.

Recent performance highlights include the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Mason Symphony Orchestra; Ravel’s Tzigane and Stravinsky’s l’Histoire du soldat at National Music Festival; Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at Catholic University’s International Piano Series; recitals at Redpath Hall at McGill, Church of the Epiphany, and University of Maryland, and chamber concerts at the Kreeger Museum, Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and the Resonance chamber music series. 

She holds both a MM in violin and a BA in Russian studies from Yale. She has studied violin and pedagogy extensively in both Russia and North America and holds a doctorate in violin from l’Université de Montréal. Elizabeth has studied chamber music with members of the Borodin, Tokyo, and Colorado String Quartets. Her primary teachers include Ani Kavafian, Ricardo Cyncynates, Mikhail Gantvarg and Vladimir Landsman.

Formerly head of strings at George Mason University, she is currently on the faculty of the Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore, and has a small private studio. In the summers she performs as a faculty artist at the National Music Festival in Chestertown, Maryland.

Learn more about the artist here: https://www.elizabethadams.net/