Adjunct Instructor of Viola
violiz@gmail.com
Elizabeth Kuefler Wallace pursues a diverse career as a performer and educator.
Before moving to Utah, she was Artistic Director for State Street Academy of Music in
Harrisburg, PA and served on the faculty at Dickinson College. She performs frequently
as a soloist and chamber musician, and recently held positions as Principal Viola of the
Williamsport Symphony and Assistant Principal Viola of the Reading Symphony. She
made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Pangea String Quartet in 2007. Other
performances include the Bang On a Can Marathon in NYC, and collaborations with
artists such as Eugene Drucker, Phillip Setzer, Steven Taylor, and William Purvis on the
Staller Center Recital Series. Winner of the 2008 concerto competition at Stony Brook
University, she performed the Penderecki Viola Concerto with Guillermo Figueroa
conducting.
Dr. Kuefler Wallace held fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Taos School of
Music, and Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, where she performed under the world's
foremost conductors including James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Christoph Eschenbach, and
Herbert Blomstedt. She also studied chamber music with members of the Emerson, Kronos,
Borromeo, Brentano, and Juilliard String Quartets.
She earned her Doctorate in Viola Performance from Stony Brook University, where she
served as teaching assistant for Katherine Murdock. She received a Bachelors degree in
violin performance from the University of Kansas with Ben Sayevich, and also studied violin
with Lorand Fenyves at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In 1996 she won the
Kansas State Fiddle Championship, and she has had the pleasure of playing on stage with
the Chieftains.