Liz received her Bachelors Degree in Music Education at Illinois State University and her Masters Degree in Violin Performance at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville where she studied with the renowned Suzuki Teacher Trainer, John Kendall. Other influential teachers have been Jacques Israelievitch, Sally Thomas, Zoya Leybin and Helen Callus, along with all the old and new friends and colleagues from the music world! Liz continues studies in Baroque Violin along with attending teacher workshops, gathering new ideas. She has taught at Suzuki Institutes in the United States, Costa Rica and Sweden.