Elizabeth Linares Montero is a Venezuelan horn player, formed in the internationally known “El Sistema” from Venezuela and currently one of the LA Phil’s Resident Fellows. She graduated with a Master’s Degree from the Colburn School in 2022and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance and Music Pedagogy from the University of music Karlsruhe (Germany) in 2018.

She has performed under the baton of numerous renowned conductors like Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, among others. She has also performed with various orchestras in the US and Germany like the San Diego Symphony, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, and most recently the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Elizabeth’s passion for music expanded beyond the orchestral world into the chamber music scene as early as her early years of learning music. Since then she has shared the stage with Noah Bendix-Balgley, She-e Wu, Clive Greensmith, Andrew Bain, among others.

In 2022, the SONARSIX Sextet, a group she was part of, won the Bronze Medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Elizabeth was also a member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra Academy between 2017-2019 in Switzerland. Her early years of music making and experiences shared while growing up in Venezuela motivate her everyday to keep sharing the transformative power of music with the youth in her role as Teaching Artist at YOLA (an El Sistema-inspired music education program from the Los Angeles Philharmonic), the French Horn Faculty of the YOLA National Festival, as well as private music instruction.