Elizabeth Child- In-Person Judge

Elizabeth Child holds a doctorate in piano performance from The Juilliard School, and currently maintains a private studio in Tryon NC after a long teaching and performing career in New York.

Her orchestral appearances include the Juilliard Orchestra at Lincoln Center, the summer festival orchestras of Interlochen and Brevard, and the symphonies of Columbus GA and Spartanburg SC. As first prize winner of the Twelfth Artists International Auditions, she was the featured soloist in the PBS television special “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”— an intimate portrait of a young artist preparing for her professional debut. Of her Weill Recital Hall concert, Will Crutchfield of The New York Times said “…one always sensed that something was happening in her playing, and that made it easy to enjoy.”

A winner in the New York Piano Teachers Congress and the Society of American Musicians competitions, Child has performed as soloist and chamber musician in the United States and Taiwan. She holds a master’s degree in performance from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in performance from Converse College. Her teachers include Josef Raieff, Dmitry Paperno, Louis Nagel, Henry Rauch and Dorothy Taubman.