Elizabeth Swarthout
 Elizabeth Swarthout, a graduate of the Preparatory Department at Eastman School of Music, received an M.S. in Social Work at Columbia University and her second B.A. in Music at the University of California, Berkeley.
A versatile pianist, Elizabeth 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 (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. Elizabeth is a well-known piano and fortepiano teacher with a studio in Richmond, California. 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 Sacramento, Davis and the Bay Area. She is the Director and serves on the faculty of the annual Golandsky Institute Berkeley Seminar on the Taubman Approach, where she gives presentations specializing in Early Music performance practices.
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