Elizabeth Fayette

Violinist Elizabeth Fayette, praised by the New York Times for her “alluring, lustrous sound and seasoned virtuosity,” made her Carnegie Hall debut in October 2013 with the Juilliard Orchestra under conductor Alan Gilbert as the winner of The Juilliard School’s Concerto Competition. In recent seasons, Ms. Fayette has performed with the Houston Symphony as a prizewinner in the Ima Hogg Competition, was a Second Prize winner in the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and was awarded the 2014 Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia Career Grant as well as the 2015 Juilliard/Tel Aviv Museum of Art Sanders Prize.

Ms. Fayette’s 2015­-2016 season includes both solo and chamber engagements.  Her recital appearances will include performances at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and at Philadelphia’s American Philosophical Society, where she will be presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. As a soloist Ms. Fayette will perform with Symphony in C, where she is currently serving in her second season as concertmaster, and with the New York Classical Players (NYCP). With NYCP, she will perform the Martinu Concertino for Piano Trio and Strings with the Sheridan Piano Trio, of which she is a founding member. Ms. Fayette will also perform with the Jupiter Chamber Players, the Marinus Ensemble and Ensemble ACJW.

Ms. Fayette was born to a family of musicians, all string players. She received her B.M from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Pamela Frank, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and Arnold Steinhardt, and a M.M from the Juilliard School as a student of Sylvia Rosenberg. Most recently, she completed her studies with Ms. Rosenberg in the Juilliard School’s esteemed Artist Diploma program. Ms. Fayette is also a Fellow of The Academy, an inspirational collective of young professional musicians who are fellows in a two ­year program that supports them in building careers as top ­quality performers, innovative programmers, and dedicated teachers who fully engage with the communities in which they live and work.