epastor@ashland.edu

Elizabeth Pastor is a scholarship graduate of Boston’s Longy School of Music, where she received her artist’s diploma at age 18. She studied piano with Boris Goldovsky, Carl Friedberg, Beryl Rubinstein and Arthur Loesser, and composition with Eunice Kettering and Charles Rychlik.

Pastor made her debut in Town Hall, New York, and has made solo appearances with leading orchestras throughout the country, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the NBC Symphony, the Boston Pops and various other Ohio orchestras, including Mansfield, Wooster and Ashland. She has been a pianist with the famed Cleveland Quartet, performed all of the Beethoven Cello-Piano Sonatas with Ernest Silberstein, and made numerous radio and television appearances.

Chairman of the AU Music Department from 1983 to 1987, Pastor has served on a number of faculty committees and is a multiple-year recipient of AU’s Academic Mentor Award. She has served as co-chair of AU’s Spectrum Series since 1980 and coordinates the AU Music Department’s Guest Artist Series. She also is a former faculty member of the Cleveland Institute of Music.

In 1987, Pastor was named Ashland University’s second trustees’ professor, an academic rank awarded by the Board of Trustees to a professor who is recognized as an outstanding educator, performer and campus leader.

Most recently, Pastor was selected as a recipient of the 2003 Ohio Magazine Excellence in Education Award.