Elizabeth Basoff | Violin, Russia/USA

Born in Los Angeles, Elizabeth began her violin studies at age 6 with Ludmila Adzhemova and Abram Shtern and began giving concerts at the age of 7. In 2004, she studied at the Central Music School in Moscow including performances at the Kremlin museum. Following studies with the world-renowned soloist Ruggiero Ricci at his abode in Palm Springs, she was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at 12 years of age. 

Elizabeth moved to Vienna, Austria and studied under the tutelage of famed violinist and academic, Boris Kushnir, a respected jury member in competitions such as the Queen Elizabeth and Tchaikovsky. She began her Bachelor studies in University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Kunst Universitat Graz). She also continued her passion for piano playing which she was already quite skilled at as she learned it parallel to her violin studies.

More recently, she was under the tutelage of Qian Zhou at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore. She was invited by conductor Volker Hartung to perform in multiple tours in Germany for several consecutive years; and in China with the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra in 2019. She premiered with the Paganini Concerto No. 4 in Germany (the live recording now released by JPK Musik) and Bruch Concerto in China. 

In 2018, she performed the newly written concerto in remembrance of “Arin Mirkan” by the english composer, Alexander Webb-Mitchell, under the baton of Volker Hartung. She has also performed as a soloist with the Pacific Symphony under Carl St. Clair; one of those concerts being an open auditorium holding about 25,000 people. 

She was invited to perform with the Israel Chamber Orchestra in memory of Rudolf Barshai. She was the principal performer with the noted violinist and conductor, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, performing the Antonio Vivaldi “Four Seasons” under Wim Steinmann, conductor. 

Some of her notable professors are Victor Danchenko and Aaron Rosand in Curtis, Daniel Shindarov, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Victor Pikaizen, Mikhail Kopelman, and Oleh Krysa. Masterclasses with Ivry Gitlis, Shlomo Mintz, Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank, Pierre Amoyal, Vadim Repin, Dmitry Berlinsky, David Takeno, Dmitri Berlinsky. Chamber with Yi-Wen Jiang, Pamela Frank, Joseph Silverstein, Astrid Schween, Martin Beaver. 

She performed for the Radio Show “From The Top”; and in January 2007, Elizabeth recorded the majority of the violin score for documentary, “Paul Mellon: In His Own Words”, which premiered at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.