Elizabeth Wallfish ( born Elizabeth Wallfisch ; born January 28, 1952 , Melbourne ) is an Australian violinist specializing in baroque music.
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She graduated from the Royal London Academy of Music , a student of Frederick Grinke . In her youth, she received a number of prizes at international competitions, including a special award for the performance of music by Johann Sebastian Bach at the Karl Flesch violin competition ( 1974 ). In the mid-1970s she began to actively perform concerts, performed with orchestras such as the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra , the Enlightenment Orchestra , the Australian Chamber Orchestra , the Fiori Musicali Orchestra and others. Among her tour performances, Wallfish includes such exotic performances as Johannes Brahms' violin concert in the capital of Zimbabwe with the Harare symphony orchestra . In 1989 , she founded the Locatelli trio (later the name was changed to the Convivium Trio) together with cellist Richard Tannicliff and harpsichord player Paul Nicholson.
Wallfish's extensive discography includes violin concerts by Bach , Vivaldi , Tartini , Gianbattista Viotti , Josef Myslivechek , Louis Spur , sonatas of Bach, Vivaldi, Handel , Pietro Locatelli , Francesco Veracini , Tomaso Albinoni and others.
Professor of baroque violin at the Hague Conservatory .