LIZZIE BURNS, BASS

Lizzie Burns is an experienced and sought after bassist and chamber musician who performs in chamber orchestras, continuo sections, rhythm sections, and new music ensembles. She is a member of The International Contemporary Ensemble, The Knights, and A Far Cry, has performed with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, recorded for major record labels and motion picture soundtracks, given dozens of world premieres, and is on faculty at the Mannes Conservatory at The New School, and Montclair State University’s Cali School of Music.

As an experienced historical bassist she has performed with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. She is energized by collaborations with composers and has premiered works by Julia Wolfe, Caroline Shaw, Pauline Oliveros, Andy Akihio, and Jörg Widmann, David Lang and dozens of others, has performed with Henry Threadgill and Zooid, and has played contemporary solo double bass repertoire across the country. Burns has recorded with soloists Edgar Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Pekka Kuusisto, and Rachel Podger, as well as popular artists Jon Batiste, Chris Thile, Phoebe Bridgers, Ingrid Michaelson, Emily King, and Wye Oak. She has appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, 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 hit series “Succession”.

As an alum of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect fellowship, Lizzie is an experienced Teaching Artist who equally enjoys engaging all audiences outside the concert hall. Lizzie attended the New England Conservatory and Boston University. Her primary teachers were Don Palma and Ed Barker, to whom she is eternally grateful.