Elizabeth Van Wirt performs regularly as an orchestral percussionist, chamber musician and soloist. Recent engagements include the Colorado Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Grand Teton Music Festival, and Colorado Music Festival. Elizabeth was the 3rd prize laureate of the prestigious Universal Marimba Competition 2011 in Belgium. She is recorded as a soloist on Ney Rosauro’s disc Early Mallet Works and was featured on the 2016 album Onyx released by the Society of Composers, Inc.
In addition to her varied performance career, Elizabeth has maintained a schedule of teaching both privately and in classroom settings, and is the Applied Percussion Professor at Regis University in Denver. She holds two degrees from the University of Miami Frost School of Music and a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music.
Elizabeth lives in Denver, Colorado, and is a proud artist and endorser of Yamaha instruments and Vic Firth sticks and mallets.