Elizabeth Prior, viola

An active Bay Area violist, Elizabeth Prior is the principal violist with the Midsummer Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Santa Rosa Symphony and a member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra. Elizabeth is also the associate principal violist with the Marin Symphony, and season substitute with the San Francisco Ballet and San Francisco Opera. She performs regularly with the San Francisco Symphony and the Pittsburgh (PA) Symphony. Other orchestral credits include Freiburg Philharmonic (Associate principal) and the Cape Town Symphony. She has recently worked with the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Reno Phil, the Südwestfunk (Southwest Radio, Germany), Stuttgart Radio, Basel Symphony, and the Mannheim Opera Orchestras.

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A native of South Africa, she was a prizewinner in the International String Competition in Pretoria and gave her debut at Carnegie Hall with the Russian Chamber Orchestra. She toured regularly as a soloist with the Chamber Ensemble of Cologne in France and was recently featured with the Santa Rosa Symphony as artistic partner for the 2022-2023 season.

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Other solo and chamber music engagements include: 

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Founder of the Broderick Ensemble, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, Sun Valley Summer Symphony, Midsummer Mozart and "Chamber Music San Francisco."   She is a member of the Strobe Quartet. She performs regularly on solo recitals in the San Francisco Bay Area and performed internationally for more than a decade with Maestro Donald Runnicles on the piano.

  

Her album, "Viola Romance," with pianist Miles Graber,  is available on Spotify and Apple Music.