Elizabeth Tomlin presents concerts, lectures and master classes throughout the United States and is in demand as a collaborative pianist in the bay area. An advocate of new music, she has premiered compositions in many states, including several world premieres at Duke University and the University of North Carolina. Other performances include concerts at the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Dudley Profiles Series at Harvard University, and solos with orchestras in Illinois, Indiana and North Carolina. Previously on the piano faculties of Duke University, the University of North Carolina and the Harid Conservatory of Music, she now freelances and operates a piano studio in Pleasanton, California.
Dr Tomlin holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Master of Music from the University of Michigan, and a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her doctoral thesis was written on the piano etudes of György Ligeti. She was the recipient of the P.E.O. Scholar Award, a national award recognizing outstanding scholarly research and academic work achieved by select women in the United States.
She frequently presents concerts, lecture-recitals and master classes throughout the United States and abroad. In demand as a collaborative pianist, recent performances include a concert with Philip Smith, principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic, and a concert in St. Petersburg, Russia with flutist Brooks De Wetter-Smith.