Elizabeth Joy Roe
Visiting Artist and Lecturer in Piano
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Elizabeth Joy Roe was featured in Symphony Magazine's cover story as one of the classical music world's "Six on the Rise: Young Artists to Watch." As the recipient of the prestigious William Petschek Piano Debut Recital Award, she made her New York solo recital debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in 2007. She has performed to critical acclaim at major venues worldwide including Zankel Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y and Steinway Hall in New York; the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; the Seoul Arts Center in Korea; Salle Cortot in Paris; the Ravinia Festival in Chicago; Salón Dorado and Teatro Argentino in Buenos Aires; the Banff Centre in Canada; the Portland International Piano Festival; and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival. She has also performed for members of the United Nations and for notable events celebrating The Juilliard School's centennial year at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Ms. Roe has appeared as concerto soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, the Indianapolis Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Chicago Philharmonic, the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ars Viva Symphony, and the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, among others. She made her New York concerto debut in 2005 under the baton of James Conlon, performing the Britten Piano Concerto at Alice Tully Hall. In 2003, Roe stepped in on short notice to replace the late John Browning for subscription performances of the Barber Piano Concerto—Browning's signature work—with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. Recent highlights include a recital at the Hoam Art Hall in Seoul, the Carnegie Hall premiere of Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen, a presentation at the EG Conference in Monterey and an artistic residency sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Argentina.
At age 13, Roe won the grand prize at the IBLA International Piano Competition in Italy. Since then, she has been honored by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the National Association for Professional Asian Women, the Music for Youth Foundation, the Samsung Foundation of Culture and the Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Roe received her bachelor's and master's degrees at The Juilliard School, where she was awarded Scholastic Distinction. She has attended the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival, the Banff International Keyboard Festival, Pianofest in the Hamptons, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and Music Academy of the West. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with numerous musicians and ensembles, including the Parker and Biava String Quartets, and she has established a groundbreaking piano duo partnership with Greg Anderson.
Roe's wide-ranging career includes world premieres of new music, live performance broadcasts and interviews on TV and radio (appearing on NPR, the BBC and numerous stations stateside and abroad) and a variety of artistic projects. She has co-directed an interactive performance project featuring Juilliard pianists, given community service concerts, conducted master classes for young musicians, served as adviser to the PianoArts North American Competition and participated in an educational residency program for the Van Cliburn Foundation. Roe was an inaugural Fellow of The Academy—A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and The Weill Music Institute. As part of this fellowship program, she performed regularly with Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall, taught at PS 131Q in Queens, and co-founded the Children's Music Campaign New York City. In recognition of her contributions to arts advocacy, she was awarded the 2008 McGraw-Hill Companies' Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach. Roe is a Steinway Artist, and she currently holds a post as visiting artist and lecturer in piano at Smith College.
