Elizabeth Ann Larson
As the Founder of The Geneva Conservatory of Music, Elizabeth served as Director and Instructor at The Geneva Conservatory of Music from 2002-2010 after founding the program in 2002. A 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 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 in March 1999.
Her solo tours have brought her to four continents in concerts throughout the U.S., Japan, England, Switzerland, Finland, Montreal, Quebec, Taiwan, South Korea, Estonia and India. 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. She 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. She has also collaborated in a series of chamber music performances with Gidon Kremer, Boris Pergamenschikow, and Eugene Istomin at the Kronberg Festival in Germany. For two years, she was invited to join Yehudi Menuhin’s prestigious chamber ensemble, the Camerata Lysy, Switzerland, performing as soloist and in chamber ensembles throughout Europe, and on tour to South Africa. For the next three years, she performed as the violinist of Duo Shanti under the auspices of Live Music Now in the UK and in the concert venues of Europe and 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 studied as a Postgraduate student with Yfrah Neaman at 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.
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 also continue her participation in outreach concerts, bringing live presentations to places such as hospitals, prisons, and special schools. In the summer, she will return to the festivals of Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Credo Festival and Masterworks, where she performs and is on faculty each summer.
Partner Programs
Credo
Credo is a summer program of intensive chamber music study designed to nurture the serious music student artistically and spiritually.
What makes Credo totally unique among professional level programs is Credo's celebration of musical excellence as a gift of the Spirit. Credo successfully brings together students from a wide variety of faith backgrounds in pursuit of understanding and implementation of the principles of compassion, selflessness, discipline and universal love. Led from a non denominational Christian perspective, the daily Morning Sing group devotional sets a positive context for coachings, rehearsals, lessons,
recreation and informal discussion. Students also set aside one day per week for service to others in nursing homes and various service organizations in order to cultivate an attitude of giving back to others. Credo's conscious redefinition of "success" produces amazing results in its students: significant musical growth and a new understanding of the joys and responsibilities of artistic excellence. The often life-changing experience of Credo helps its students be more engaging members of their communities, families and musical ensembles.
Credo's mission is threefold:
• Develop the gift of music
• Acknowledge the Source of the gift
• Respond with service
Angelos Mission Ensemble (AME)
Angelos Mission Ensemble is a New Jersey-based, Christian chamber music program developed to nurture and train young musicians in leadership, character building, and musicianship. AME’s mission is to provide a supportive environment where each student’s musical and spiritual development are encouraged through chamber music and in-depth discussion. Through fun activities, positive interactions and friendships that form, this chamber music program encourages values such as responsibility, leadership, cooperation, collaboration and harmony.
Every year, for 8-10 weeks beginning in October through mid-December, students from age 10 to 18 learn from a structured, themed curriculum taught by critically acclaimed, professional musicians. Each season culminates with public concerts in venues such as churches, local hospitals and nursing homes.
Located just across the GW Bridge, this program is easy to attend for students from both NY and NJ. Regardless of a students’ musical or spiritual background, all are welcome.
Credo
