Elizabeth Kuefler Wallace pursues a diverse career as a performer and educator. She currently serves as adjunct professor of viola at Utah Valley University. Before moving to Utah, she was Artistic Director for State Street Academy of Music in Harrisburg, PA and was on the faculty at Dickinson College. She performs frequently as a soloist and chamber musician, and recently held positions as Principal Viola of the Williamsport Symphony and Assistant Principal Viola of the Reading Symphony. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Pangea String Quartet in 2007. Other performances include the Bang On a Can Marathon in NYC, and collaborations with artists such as Eugene Drucker, Phillip Setzer, Steven Taylor, and William Purvis on the the Staller Center Recital Series. Winner of the 2008 concerto competition at Stony Brook University, she performed the Penderecki Viola Concerto with Guillermo Figueroa conducting.
Dr. Kuefler Wallace held fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Taos School of Music, and Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, where she performed under the world's foremost conductors including James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Christoph Eschenbach, and Herbert Blomstedt. She also studied chamber music with members of the Emerson, Kronos, Borromeo, Brentano, and Juilliard String Quartets.
She earned her Doctorate in Viola Performance from Stony Brook University, where she served as teaching assistant for Katherine Murdock. She received a Bachelors degree in violin performance from the University of Kansas with Ben Sayevich, and also studied violin with Lorand Fenyves at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In 1996 she won the Kansas State Fiddle Championship, and she has had the pleasure of playing on stage with the Chieftains.
Elizabeth Kuefler Wallace, DMA631-681-9113
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