Overview
Dr. Elizabeth Wallace, violinist and violist, is an active performer and teacher in Wichita, Kansas. Elizabeth is a violinist with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and plays viola in the Switchgrass String Quartet. She has also played principal viola with the Wichita Grand Opera and Music Theatre Wichita. Previously, she served as adjunct professor of violin and viola at Utah Valley University, Dickinson College, and the Gifted Music School in Salt Lake City. She has held additional teaching positions at Eastern Mennonite University and Stony Brook University. From 2010-2016, she was a member of the Utah Chamber Orchestra at Ballet West and performed frequently with the Utah Symphony. Prior to that, she was Artistic Director for State Street Academy of Music in Harrisburg, PA and served as Assistant Principal Viola of the Reading Symphony and Principal Viola of the Williamsport Symphony.
She held fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Taos School of Music, and Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, where she performed under the world鈥檚 foremost conductors including James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Christoph Eschenbach, and Herbert Blomstedt. She also studied chamber music with members of the Emerson, Kronos, Borromeo, Brentano, and Juilliard String Quartets.
Elizabeth is a certified Suzuki instructor and dedicated teacher to students of all ages. Her students have been accepted to many prestigious conservatories and universities including Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard School, Indiana University, Cleveland Institute of Music, Boston Conservatory, Aspen Music Festival, Rice University, the University of Maryland, Arizona State University, and others.
She earned her Doctorate in Viola Performance from Stony Brook University, where she was teaching assistant for Katherine Murdock. She received a Bachelor's degree in violin performance from the University of Kansas with Ben Sayevich, and also studied violin with Lorand Fenyves at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.