Elizabeth Joy Roe

A Chicago native, Ms. Roe was 13 years old when she won the grand prize at the IBLA International Piano Competition in Italy. Since then, she has been honored by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the National Association for Professional Asian Women, the Music for Youth Foundation, the Samsung Foundation of Culture, and the Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School as a full scholarship student of Yoheved Kaplinsky, graduating with Scholastic Distinction (for her thesis on representations of music in selected works of twentieth-century fiction).

Ms. Roe’s wide-ranging career includes live performance broadcasts and interviews on TV and radio (appearing on NPR, KBS, and WGBH, to name a few), world premieres of new music, and a diversity of artistic projects. A Universal Classics recording artist, her debut album Images Poetiques was released on the Deutsche Grammophon label in 2010. She is an avid chamber musician who has collaborated with such esteemed artists as violist Richard O’Neill, cellist Ralph Kirshbaum, and the Parker Quartet, and she was a founding member of Ensemble ACJW (one of the resident performing groups at Carnegie Hall) and of The Declassified (one of New York's most exciting new collectives). Most notably, she has established a groundbreaking piano duo partnership with Greg Anderson: the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo is known worldwide for their dynamic performances, compositions, and music videos (which have been viewed by millions on YouTube).

Committed to arts advocacy, Ms. Roe was one of the inaugural fellows of The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. As part of this professional program, she performed regularly at Carnegie Hall with Ensemble ACJW, taught at PS 131Q in Queens, and co-directed the Children's Music Campaign NYC. Additionally, she has participated in an educational residency for the Van Cliburn Foundation, curated an interactive performance project featuring Juilliard pianists, served as an adviser to the PianoArts North American Competition, and given numerous community service concerts and master classes. In recognition of her educational and leadership endeavors, she was awarded the McGraw-Hill Companies’ Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach. She recently completed a two-year teaching fellowship at Smith College as Visiting Artist and Lecturer in Piano.

A Steinway Artist and Soros Fellow, Ms. Roe's mission is to connect with others through the inspiration, joy and essential humanity of music.