Pianist Elizabeth Basconi encourages her students and audiences to embrace a lifelong participation in music through her work as a piano instructor, teaching artist, and active performer.

​A dedicated teacher of private piano lessons as well as music theory classes, Elizabeth encourages musical artistry and mastery. With a strong belief that everyone can grow as a musician, she patiently guides students to use personal experience as the basis for artistic interpretation. With close attention to detail, she gives students the tools to become independent, life-long musicians. In addition to her private piano studio, she currently serves on the faculty of Boston area schools. At Powers Music School, she teaches private lessons. At St. Paul’s Choir School, she teaches Musicianship and Theory as well as Dalcroze Eurhythmics-based Rhythmic Solfége classes. As a Dalcroze educator, she has presented at the Dalcroze Society of America National Conference. Elizabeth previously held assistantships in Longy School of Music’s Community Programs and Interlochen Arts Camp where she coached chamber groups and piano duets.

As an enthusiastic teaching artist, Elizabeth co-founded the flute and piano duo Marvento, which invites audiences to form meaningful connections with live music through interactive performances and workshops. Marvento regularly collaborates to present interdisciplinary science+music events with the Multiverse Concert Series, including “Reef Music,” a program about the effect of global warming on coral reefs. In addition to her work with Marvento, Elizabeth has been a teaching artist with the Cantata Singers’ Classroom Cantatas program in which students in Boston Public Schools compose and sing cantatas based on a theme chosen by their classroom teachers. Elizabeth has completed both the intermediate and advanced levels of the Lincoln Center Education's Teaching Artist Training Lab.

Elizabeth has performed in the United States and internationally including recitals in France, Poland, and Japan. She has participated twice in the Musical Summer at the Mill in Andè, France as well as the Aria International Chamber Music Academy. As a soloist, she has worked with Peter Serkin, Robert Shannon, and Daniel Epstein. As an accompanist and chamber musician, she has been coached by Martin Katz as well as the Moscow Piano Trio.

Elizabeth holds a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Longy School of Music of Bard College and a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Ball State University. She most recently earned a Certificate in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, a pedagogy that uses movement, improvisation, and social interaction to teach music through the whole body.