Liz Freivogel is the founding and current violist of the Jupiter String Quartet, formed in 2001. Liz has a studio of viola students at the University of Illinois, and also helps to run the chamber music program.
Liz has won prizes in the Primrose International Viola Competition, Oberlin Concerto Competition, American String Teachers Association Competition National Solo Competition, and the Wendell-Irish Viola Competition. Her teaching experience includes a long-term affiliation with the Bowdoin International Music Festival, where she is in residence each summer, as well as repeated teaching and performing residencies at the Madeline Island Music Festival, the Taos School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. She has engaged in visiting residencies at numerous schools, including Oberlin Conservatory, Adelphi University, the University of Iowa, Middlebury College, Peabody Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and many others. She has served as a judge of the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and the Illinois ASTA Concerto Competition and gives frequent masterclasses nationwide.
Liz feel sthat developing relationships with future audiences through engagement work in the community is an essential skill for all musicians. Liz grew up in a musical family, playing string quartets with her three siblings from a young age. Three of the four siblings are now professional string quartet musicians (the fourth became a physicist). She feels extremely grateful to have benefited from the wisdom of many great music teachers, and hopes to pass on as much of this wisdom as possible to her own students in the years to come.