Elizabeth Crawford is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Ball State University.  In addition to teaching studio clarinet, she is also a member of the Musical Arts Quintet and principal clarinetist of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra.  A native of Louisville, Kentucky, she received the Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan School of Music and holds a Bachelor of Music, magna cum laude, from Furman University.  Currently she is pursuing a doctorate at Florida State University.  She was a member of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra for ten years and has worked with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Annapolis Symphony, the Monterey Symphony, the Colorado Music Festival, Baltimore Opera Orchestra, and others.  In the United Kingdom, she was a finalist for several orchestral positions and she performed extensively with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the City of Birmingham Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.  She has recorded for the BBC and done sessions at Abbey Road, Angel, and Olympic studios in London.  She also recorded Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with Robert Craft and the Philharmonia on the Naxos label. 

In 1995, her performance at the International Clarinet Association’s conference was included on a “Highlights from ClarinetFest ‘95” CD, one of only a few performances selected from the conference.  Elizabeth has also performed at ICA conferences in 2001, 2003, and 2004, and she has been a soloist with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the prestigious Robert Marcellus masterclasses.

She has performed in some of the worlds’ major concert halls such as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, the Royal Albert Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Zurich Tonhalle, La Scala, and for the Maggio Musicale in Florence.  Her teachers include David Breeden, Dr. Robert Chesebro, Dr. Frank Kowalsky, Dr. John Mohler, Theodore Johnson, and Fred Ormand.  Elizabeth has taught clarinet at the Florida Community College at Jacksonville, Jacksonville University, the University of North Florida, the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Monterey, and the Hill House School in London.