Widely admired as a Baroque vionist of expressive eloquence and technical sparkle, Elizabeth Blumenstock is a longtime concertmaster, soloist and leader with the Bay Area’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists, concertmaster of the International Handel Festival in Goettingen, Germany, and artistic director of the Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar.

Her love of chamber music has involved her in many accomplished and interesting smaller ensembles oved the years, including the Galax Quartet, which performs both early music and commissioned contemporary works, Voices of Music, Musica Pacifica, Live Oak Baroque, Severall Friends, and Ars Lyrica Chamber Players. Festival performances include the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Oulunsalo Soi festival in Finland, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, among many others. She has recorded over 100 CDs for Harmonia Mundi, Dorian/Sono Luminus, Virgin Veritas, Koch, Naxos, Reference Recordings and others.

An enthusiastic teacher, Blumenstock teaches at the Juilliard Historical Performance Department, the San Francisco Conservatory, the American Bach Soloists’ summer Festival and Academy, the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and the Valley of the Moon Music Festival in Sonoma, California.  She plays a violin built by Andrea Guarneri in 1660 in Cremona, which is on generous loan to her from the Philharmonia Baroque Period Instrument Trust.