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Bach Festival 2008 Season: July 19 – August 9 credits \ © 2006 Carmel Bach Festival
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Festival Soloists: Elizabeth Wallfisch

Concertmaster, Director for Monday Main Concert – London, UK

The violin gives Elizabeth Wallfisch a voice as one of the most prominent interpreters of baroque and classical repertoire.  She is in demand  throughout the world as a soloist, performing on period instruments, and as a leader, directing from her instrument.  Her playing has taken her from Lincoln Center in New York where she led the Orchestra of the Enlightenment in the opening concert of the Handel Festival to Zimbabwe as soloist with the Harare Symphony Orchestra. 

In Australia she was in 2007 the Music Director of National Music Camp Australia.  Elizabeth’s long and impressive discography offers an insight into her musical world.  Her repertoire ranges through the early to high Baroque Italian violin composers including Vivaldi, Corelli, Veracini, Tartini, Geminiani to the classical greats of Mozart to Mendelssohn, lesser known composers such as Myslivecek and Abel and masters of the violin such as Paganini and Viotti, as well as encompassing the music of Cima, Biber, Telemann and Bach. She has enjoyed close collaborations with like-minded musicians, including participation in the Purcell Quartet, Convivium and presently Elizabeth Wallfisch + for the performance of Baroque and early Classical repertoire.  She is a member of the Oberlin Fortepiano Trio (with Jaap ter Linden and David Breitman) exploring the language of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms.


Elizabeth teaches at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.  She has published a treatise exploring the fundamental aspects of Baroque violin playing titled The Art of Playing Chin-Off for the Brave and the Curious.