About Elizabeth

Elizabeth Steiner enjoys a busy schedule as a freelance harpist in the Philadelphia area. She has most recently performed as principal harp with the Baltimore Symphony, Delaware Symphony, Orchestra 2001, Lancaster Symphony, Maryland Symphony, and second harp with the Sarasota Orchestra, among others. Elizabeth graduated in 2013 with a Master’s Degree in Harp Performance from the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. For her studies at Temple, Elizabeth was awarded the scholarship position of Academic Intern to study under Elizabeth Hainen, the Principal Harpist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Elizabeth earned her Bachelor of Music degree in 2010 from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Yolanda Kondonassis. An avid performer of music across a wide variety of genres, Elizabeth has most recently performed with artists Josh Groban, Moses Sumney, and Weird Al. Elizabeth has spent her summers on faculty at the Curtis Summerfest Young Artist Summer Program and performing at the Siena Music Festival in Siena, Italy and the Saratoga Harp Colony in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Since 2013, Elizabeth has been the harpist for the luxury hotel The Rittenhouse in Center City Philadelphia. She performs every weekend for tea and for other private functions. As a teacher, she has been the harp faculty for the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia since 2014 and maintains a private studio at her home in Philadelphia. She is also the Executive Director of The Lyra Society, a non-profit organization founded by Elizabeth Hainen in 2004 that provides high quality instruments and weekly private harp lessons to 30 Philadelphia public school students. As a Lyra Teaching Artist she teaches a weekly group harp class at Philadelphia High School for Girls, and private lessons at Central High School and the Kearny School

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As a freel­ance harp­ist, Stein­er has per­formed as prin­cip­al harp­ist with var­ied area or­ches­tras, in­clud­ing the Bal­timore Sym­phony, Delaware Sym­phony, Lan­caster Sym­phony and Mary­land Sym­phony. Just this past week­end, from May 6 to 8, she per­formed with the Delaware Sym­phony at the Grand Op­era House in Wilm­ing­ton.