Elisa Barston

A Second Prize and Audience Prize winner at the 1987 Menuhin Competition, Elisa Barston is the Seattle Symphony’s Principal Second Violin, a post she's held since 2006. Before that, she served as the Associate Concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for eight seasons and was a first violin section member of The Cleveland Orchestra. An accomplished soloist and chamber musician, Elisa studied with Josef Gingold, Robert Lipsett, Almita and Roland Vamos, Elaine Skorodin Fohrman, and Betty Haag. She made her European debut with the English Chamber Orchestra in 1986 at the request of Sir Yehudi Menuhin.