Elizabeth Haddon (Piano)
Liz Haddon graduated from York University with a BA (Hons) in Music in 1987. While at university she studied piano and fortepiano with Karen Evans and subsequently with Melvyn Tan. Since graduating she has worked in several diverse areas as a freelance musician, including piano and violin teaching, editorial work, early music performance and administration for the new music group Icebreaker. She has also performed and taught Javanese gamelan in the UK and abroad, including sessions for teachers in Birmingham and workshops with the Hallè Orchestra, as well as summer schools in Austria. In 1993 she organised the gamelan festival Striking Out at York University and in 1994 she was invited by the British Council to visit Indonesia.
She currently teaches piano privately and at the University of York, where she also organises Piano Forum sessions exploring various psychological and practical aspects of piano playing, and regularly takes groups of students to perform at a nearby home for the elderly. Liz is a Research Assistant for John Potter for the Investigating Muiscal Performance Project.