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Elizabeth Talbert is a Seattle-based flutist known for her rich tone and musical versatility. At home in a variety of genres, Elizabeth has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra and on NPR with hip-hop chamber music opera Ensemble Mik Nawooj.

In May of 2014, Elizabeth was the Grand-Prize Winner of the Berkeley Piano Club's biannual Competition for Winds and Brass. Elizabeth performed as a soloist at the 11th annual Festival of Contemporary Music, alongside acclaimed pianist Allegra Chapman at the 2013 Hot Air Music Festival, and was invited to perform George Crumb's Idyll for the Misbegotten with the SFCM Percussion Ensemble in 2012. An ardent supporter and performer of contemporary music, she is the founder and artistic director of Phonochrome, a Bay Area based contemporary chamber ensemble.

Elizabeth has played with the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, as principal of both the Symphony and Mozart Orchestras at the Festival de Musica de Santa Catarina in Brazil, and received a standing ovation as principal flute for Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1, "Classical," with the 2011 Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra. She has performed in the orchestras at Brevard Music Center and Eastern Music Festival, and worked with conductors Teddy Abrams, Nicholas Daniel, Sarah Hicks, Alex Klein, Gerard Schwarz, and David Zinman, among others.

Elizabeth received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University under the tutelage of Jeanne Baxtresser and Alberto Almarza. She holds a Masters in Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with San Francisco Symphony principal flutist Tim Day.

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