About Liz

Liz Morad is a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral percussionist. In 2024 she performed as marimba soloist with the Brevard Music Center Faculty Orchestra as winner of the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition. At the Brevard Music Festival she also performed The Jungle alongside Wynton Marsalis with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and played drum set for Judy Collins with the Brevard Festival Orchestra.

In the summer of 2026, Liz was timpanist with the Prague Summer Nights festival, once performing under the baton of Luis Langrée. She played four operas at the Czech National Theatre and performed Dvořák’s New World Symphony at Smetana Hall in Prague.

Liz studies at the Eastman School of Music with Michael Burritt, Chip Ross, Mark Hodges, and Kyle Peters. She performs with the Eastman Philharmonia, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Eastman Opera, Eastman Percussion Ensemble, OSSIA New Music, Empire Film and Media Ensemble, the Graduate Composers’ Sinfonietta, and Eastman Brass Guild, and serves as the coordinator for percussion in the Eastman Saxophone Project. She participated in the premiere of John Mackey’s Venomous Devices with the Eastman Saxophone Project and appears on the professional recording of Michael Burritt’s Tempus Uri for percussion sextet.

Outside of music, Liz is majoring in Environmental Studies at the University of Rochester. She is an avid equestrian and painter who loves to bake, spend time outdoors, and play with her dog.

Liz is also a painter. See her artwork at art.lizmorad.com →