Elizabeth Adams has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe as violinist, violist, and pianist; 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. As a freelance orchestral musician she performs regularly with the Richmond, Annapolis and Maryland Symphonies, Virginia and Baltimore Operas, Washington Concert Opera, the New Orchestra of Washington, and the National Philharmonic. More recently she has been accompanying and training young violinists and violists, because as a string player herself, she has a highly specialized knowledge of the literature.
She is currently on the faculty of the Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore and has a boutique private teaching studio. She coaches sectionals for the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras (of which she is an alumna) and is the pianist for their Music Buddies mentorship program. Her students are regular prizewinners in competitions and have been accepted everywhere from the Montreal Conservatoire to Harvard, Brown, Peabody Conservatory, and the University of Maryland.
