Violinist Elizabeth York lives in St. Paul, MN and is active as a performer and teacher across the region. She is Associate Principal Second violin of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and performs on baroque violin with the Lyra Baroque Orchestra. She is violin faculty at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University, Upper Midwest String Camp, and Birch Creek Music Performance Center, and teaches violin and viola privately.

Recent performance highlights include chamber music projects with La Grande Bande, 113 Composers Collective, and Sioux Falls Chamber Music Collective, and solo violin recitals at The Baroque Room in St. Paul and at the BARC in Windom, MN.

Elizabeth holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in violin and viola performance from Stony Brook University in New York, where she also received a Masters of Music in violin performance.