Elizabeth York

Concertmaster | Saint Paul, MN

Elizabeth York lives in St. Paul, MN, and is sought after as a performer and teacher across the region. She currently holds the positions of Associate Concertmaster and Personnel Manager of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and is Assistant Professor of violin and viola at Gustavus Adolphus College. In Summer 2025, she will appear as soloist with the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra on their tour of Scotland and Ireland. York is an avid chamber musician and recitalist with interest in a wide range of musical styles, from baroque performance practice to contemporary music. She was a 2023-24 MPR Classnotes artist as a member of the Ninebark Ensemble. Select recent performance highlights include Montana Chamber Music Summer Festival, Apollo Chamber Music Festival, Florestan Chamber Music, 10th Wave Chamber Music Collective, as well as solo violin recitals at The Baroque Room in St. Paul, BARC in Windom, MN, Paramount Theater in St. Cloud, MN, and a guest recital at the University of South Dakota. In 2013 York completed a dual Doctor of Musical Arts degree in violin and viola performance at Stony Brook University (NY). She also holds a BM from East Carolina University and MM from Stony Brook University in violin performance. Her major teachers include violinists Ara Gregorian, Soovin Kim, and Phil Setzer, and violists Dan Panner, Nicholas Cords, and Lawrence Dutton, and chamber music studies with the Emerson String Quartet.