Elizabeth Joy Roe
ARTS 2000 Finalist
Classical Piano
Chicago, Illinois
Elizabeth Joy Roe is a prizewinner of international and national competitions. At the age of 13, she won the Grand Prize in the young division (up to age 23) of the 1995 Ibla Grand Prize International Piano Competition in Italy. She was one of only two musicians in the United States to receive the prestigious Music for Youth Foundation Scholarship Award in 2000. Other awards include a Level I award in the Arts Recognition and Talent Search® (ARTS) of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) and top prizes in the Grace Welsh Piano Prize International Competition, the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition, the Musicians Club of Women Auditions, the Piano Arts National Concerto Competition, the Steinway Society Auditions (both solo and concerto divisions), the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Music Scholarship Auditions, the American Opera Society Auditions, and the Society of American Musicians Scholarship Competition. She is also a recipient of a scholarship from the Samsung Foundation of Culture.
Miss Roe has performed in Korea, Europe and the United States, at such venues as Seoul Art Center in Korea; the Salle Cortot of the École Normale in Paris; Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall and New York University in New York; the Fourth World Piano Pedagogy Conference in St. Louis; Symphony Center in Chicago; the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville, Maryland; and the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. Her performances have been broadcast on Chicago's classical music stations. Miss Roe has performed as soloist with the Chicago Symphony II, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, and Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra to much critical acclaim.
Miss Roe has studied with Emilio del Rosario, Vladimir Leyetchkiss, and Theodore Edel. She has played for and worked with a variety of distinguished artists and pedagogues: Natalya Antonova, Dimitri Bashkirov, Martin Canin, Ralf Gothóni, Emanuel Krasovsky, Fernando Laires, Jerome Lowenthal, Hong Hee Moon, Ursula Oppens, Victor Rosenbaum, Paul Schenly, Elena Shishko, and the late James Barbagallo. Last summer, she attended the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California as a fellowship recipient. In addition, Miss Roe is an avid chamber musician. Her ensemble, the Xanadu Trio won the top prize in the senior division of the 2002 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Miss Roe has also distinguished herself as a scholar. Among her numerous academic achievements, she was a National Merit Finalist, an A. P. Scholar, an Illinois State Scholar, and a five-time national laureate in the National French Contest.
In September, 2002, Miss Roe performed a concert in Chicago in honor of Mike Royko, the acclaimed columnist of The Chicago Tribune. She also received a scholarship to attend Pianofest, a music festival where about a dozen pianists study with a variety of superb teachers. After spending a month there, she was selected as the Performing Assistant (a scholarship distinction) of the great Arie Vardi at Bowdoin. Currently, Miss Roe is a third-year student at The Juilliard School in New York, where she was awarded a full scholarship.