"ELEGANCE AND VERVE"
Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
ABOUT
Praised by Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle for her “elegance and verve,” pianist Elizabeth Dorman enjoys performing music both new and old as a soloist and chamber musician.
A finalist of the 2018 Leipzig International Bach Competition, Elizabeth has been widely recognized as a leading performer for her inquisitive interpretations of Bach’s music on the modern piano. Elizabeth has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Louisville Orchestra, the Leipzig Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the California Symphony, the Vallejo Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Folsom Lake Symphony, the Stanford Summer Symphony, Symphony Parnassus, as a soloist for interdisciplinary projects at New World Symphony, and frequently performs as guest keyboard of the San Francisco Symphony. She can be heard on Delos records as a soloist with Santa Rosa Symphony featuring Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s work for piano and orchestra, “Peanuts Gallery,” and has also recorded the complete Brass chamber music of Andrew Lewinter for Navona Records. Her solo album featuring music of Bach, Scarlatti and Couperin is expected to be released in late 2025.
She has been presented as a soloist and chamber musician at venues including the Kennedy Center, Davies Symphony Hall, Herbst Theater, Merkin Hall, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Leipzig’s Hochschule für Musik, and her live solo performances have been nationally broadcast on NPR and public radio. She has appeared at other festivals including Mendocino, Pacofic Crest, Tanglewood, Britt, Sarasota, Aspen, Toronto Summer Music, Icicle Creek, and the Banff Centre.
Working with the Bridge Arts Ensemble, Stony Brook University, and as a board member of the Ross McKee Foundation, Elizabeth has produced concerts, lectures, and workshops for music students and was honored with the Father Merlet Award from Pro Musicis for her work training high school music students in community engagement.
Elizabeth and was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University in 2019 where she studied with Gilbert Kalish and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College and the Pacific Crest Music Festival.
Elizabeth Dorman, piano
Elizabeth Dorman, piano
Elizabeth Dorman, piano
Dr. Dorman is an active member of MTNA, CAPMT, and the MTAC. Her students have gone on to study professionally at schools including the Peabody Conservatory of Music, NYU, and Stony Brook University and have performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and the Baruch Performing Arts Center. She teaches piano, chamber music and musicianship at the Crowden Music Center in Berkeley, chamber music at California Music Preparatory Academy and privately at her studios in San Francisco and Albany, CA. Previously, she has taught at Stony Brook University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College. She has given masterclasses at Icicle Creek Music Center, Pacific Lutheran University, Stony Brook University, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and others, and she currently serves on the board of the Ross Mckee Foundation.
