Elizabeth Ramos is a St. Louis based professional freelance violinist who specializes in classical, popular, and mariachi music. Formally trained since the age of two, Ms. Ramos attended such prestigious music programs as the Interlochen Arts Academy, Tanglewood Festival, and Aspen Music Festival, before completing her bachelor’s degree in violin performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2006.
In St. Louis, Elizabeth has performed extensively with Chamber Project St. Louis, The Kingsbury Ensemble, the Bach Society at Powell Symphony Hall, the Pittsburgh Ballet at the Fox Theater, and has twice premiered new pieces for chamber ensemble with the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Solo appearances with orchestra include concertos by Tchaikovsky, Wieniawski, Barber, and Lalo in Missouri, Kentucky, and Illinois. She has presented recitals in Connecticut, Ohio, and Missouri. Recently, Ms. Ramos performed with famed pop group “The Black Eyed Peas,” and with international pop icon Stevie Wonder. Elizabeth Ramos is a former faculty member at the Community Music School of Webster University, and East Central College in Union, MO. Ms. Ramos is currently working toward a masters degree in violin performance with a Suzuki pedagogy emphasis at The Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT.
Raised in a large Mexican family, Elizabeth has grown up playing mariachi music, in addition to the more traditional classical repertoire, and plays with several mariachi groups in the St. Louis, MO and Hartford, CT areas.