Elizabeth Blumenstock

Baroque violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock is widely admired as a performer of interpretive eloquence and technical sparkle. A frequent soloist, concertmaster, and leader with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, the Goettingen Handelfestspiel Orchestra, and the Italian ensemble Il Complesso Barocco, she is also a member of several of California‚s finest period instrument ensembles, including Musica Pacifica, the Arcadian Academy, and Trio Galanterie. She has appeared with period orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and abroad, and has performed for the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, Los Angeles Opera, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Oulunsalo Soi festival in Finland, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, among many others. She has recorded for harmonia mundi, Deutsche Grammophon, Virgin Classics, Dorian, BMG, Reference Recordings, and Koch International. Ms. Blumenstock is instructor of baroque violin at the University of Southern California , and teaches regularly at the International Baroque Institute at Longy, has taught at Oberlin‚s Baroque Performance Institute and the Austrian Baroque Academy , and has coached university Baroque ensembles at USC, Roosevelt University , the University of Virginia , and California Institute of the Arts.