Ann Elliott-Goldschmid

Ann Elliott-Goldschmid is a Canadian violinist.

The daughter of the composer Carleton Elliott and the pianist Patricia Grant Lewis was a student of Pauline Harborn and during her studies at Boston University with Victor Yampolsky . Even before studying at Boston University, she performed at the New Brunswick Music Festival and was a prizewinner at the Canadian National Music Festival . She was the winner of the Boston University Concerto Competition and played first violin with the Honors String Quartet (with Eugene Lehner and Endel Kalam ) and attended summer courses with Nathan Milstein in Zurich and Dénes Zsigmondy in Ammerland. She was also a member of the Emanuel Chamber Players and the Harvard Chamber Orchestra .

In 1984 she became concertmaster of the Renaissance City Chamber Players in Detroit. She then taught violin at the Center for Creative Studies , the Rochester Conservatory of Music, and Oakland University before becoming a founding member of the Lafayette String Quartet (with Pamela Highbaugh Aloni , Sharon Stanis, and Joanna Hood ) in 1986 . In the same year the ensemble won the Cleveland Quartet Competition and thus a two-year training with the members of the Cleveland Quartet at the Eastman School of Music and was supervised and supported by Rostislav Dubinsky . Elliott-Goldschmidt also took lessons from Donald Weilerstein .

In addition to several albums with the Lafayette String Quartet, she recorded a. a. Murray Adaskin's First Sonata for violin and piano with her mother, as well as arrangements of Ludwig van Beethoven's string trios with guitarist Alex Dunn , flautist Lanny Pollet and violist Joanna Hood .

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• University of Victoria - The Lafayette String Quartet - Ann Elliott-Goldschmid
• Allmusic - Ann Elliott-Goldschmid