Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra

Elizabeth Pitcairn

Since performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1996, violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn, has received acclaim as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. With John Williams conducting, she performed the solo from his film score, "Far and Away." In Los Angeles, she performed the Brahms Concerto with Mehli Mehta conducting and in Europe, she performed at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin. As a recitalist, she has performed in the United States and in Europe. In 1996, she was presented on the Celebrity Recital Series in Philadelphia and has appeared in recital with Los Angeles Philharmonic principal cellist, Ronald Leonard. For two summers she performed chamber music at the Marlboro Music Festival and has performed in France at the Ainay-Le-Viel Festival and at the St. Barths, Sunflower and Buzzard's Bay Music Festivals. She recently performed the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the California Philharmonic and presently serves as co-concertmaster of the New West Symphony

Elizabeth Pitcairm was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1973, began her violin studies at age three and made her solo orchestra debut at age fourteen. Since then, she has performed with orchestras the concertos by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Saint-Saens, Bruch, Wieniawski, Vieuxtemps, Lalo and Mozart. Her early teachers included Julian Meyer and Sylvia Ahramjian from Temple University's Institute for Gifted Young Musicians. She has worked extensively with Robert Lipsett at the University of Southern California and Samuel Ashkenasi of the Vermeer Quartet. She plays the 1720 "Mendelssohn" Stradivarius.