Lizzie Burns

Photographer: Shervin Lainez

Musician and Educator Lizzie Burns is a sought after and experienced bassist who performs in Chamber Orchestras, Continuo Sections, Rhythm Sections, and New Music Ensembles.  She has performed with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, recorded for major Record Labels and Motion Picture Soundtracks, given dozens of World Premieres, is a member of The Knights and A Far Cry, and is on faculty at the Hartt School of Music and the Mannes Conservatory at The New School.

Drawing abundant inspiration from her colleagues, Lizzie works with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, New Century Chamber Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), The Orchestra of St Luke’s, The Knights, and A Far Cry.   As an experienced historical bassist she has performed with the Handel and Haydn Society and Teatro Neuovo.  She is energized by collaborations with composers and has premiered works by Julia Wolfe, Caroline Shaw, Pauline Oliveros, Andy Akihio, and Jörg Widmann among many others.  Burns played on Broadway alongside Josh Groban in Dave Malloy’s “Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812” as well as the American Repertory Theater’s productions of Malloy’s “Great Comet'' and “Moby Dick”.  She has played on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and has performed and recorded with Jon Batiste.  She has recorded for the Sony Masterworks, Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos, New Amsterdam, and Nonesuch record labels and can be heard on popular film and television soundtracks including HBO’s “Succession”.

As an alum of Ensemble Connect, a rigorous two-year fellowship program based at Carnegie Hall, Lizzie is an experienced Teaching Artist who equally enjoys engaging with audiences from the stage of Carnegie Hall as she does performing in homeless shelters, for incarcerated communities, and working with public school students in the Bronx.

Lizzie attended the New England Conservatory and Boston University.  Her primary teachers were Don Palma and Ed Barker, to whom she is eternally grateful.