Education

• MM University of California Los Angeles

Biography

Renowned for her musicality and warm sound, bassoonist Elizabeth Low-Atwater is fully immersed in the Southern California music scene. She maintains an active freelance career playing with ensembles like the Long Beach Symphony and the Mozart Classical Orchestra among many other regional groups. Elizabeth has also appeared as a guest soloist performing Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto with Symphony Irvine and the La Sierra Chamber Orchestra.

An avid chamber artist, she is continually engaged in many various projects. As a member of the West Coast Wind Quintet, the ensemble holds frequent concerts promoting and working with local living composers. She has also given many educational performances at elementary and middle schools through the Philharmonic Society’s Musicians on Campus Program. Her most recent venture the Lizulia Duo, a collaboration with fellow friend and flutist Julia Barnett, are named semifinalists for the 2022 American Prize Winners.

With an extensive teaching studio, she is on faculty at Fullerton College, Concordia University, and La Sierra University. She also instructs at Biola University as well as the Idyllwild Arts Summer Music Academy. Many of her private students have won positions in the All-State, and All-Southern Ensembles, and seats in the Pacific Symphony Youth Ensembles as well as gone on to receive music scholarships at the collegiate level. Through Concordia University, Irvine she co-hosts an annual Double Reed Day, giving workshops in reed making and providing various bassoon and oboe resources for students in the area.

Elizabeth received her Bachelors in Music Performance from the California State University, Fullerton and a Masters in Music at the University of California, Los Angeles and also participated in the Hot Springs Music Festival, Imani Winds Chamber Festival, and Domaine Forget Music Festival.