Faculty
Elizabeth Swarthout
Elizabeth Swarthout, a graduate of the Preparatory Department at Eastman School of Music, received a MS degree in social work at Columbia University and her second BA degree in music at the University of California, Berkeley.
A versatile pianist, Ms. Swarthout made a CD, which was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, called 20th Century Four-Hand Piano Music, with Margret Elson on the Laurel Record label in 1996. The Elson-Swarthout Duo performed together for 25 years, including an East Coast tour in 1997, during which they played at the Kennedy Center, among other venues. With Margret Elson she created The Clementi-Mozart Contest, which featured performances on the fortepiano. She has given lectures, workshops, and performances for various Suzuki Institutes locally and nationally.
Ms. Swarthout began studying the Taubman Approach in 1985 with Nina Scolnik and currently studies with John Bloomfield, Edna Golandsky, and Robert Durso. She serves as associate faculty for the Golandsky Institute and teaches the Taubman Approach in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Davis, California, as well as in Granada, Spain. She is the director of the Golandsky Institute Berkeley Seminar on the Taubman Approach, where she has given presentations on Early Music performance practices. She also teaches fortepiano and performs as soloist and chamber musician on piano and fortepiano.
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