Elizabeth Manus, accompanist and vocal coach, serves as a staff pianist in the Music Department of Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, and also on the piano faculty of Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA.
As a collaborative pianist playing for vocal and instrumental auditions, competitions or recitals, Elizabeth demonstrates versatility performing in any musical situation. She’s known for adapting her piano playing to suit any style of music and those performing whether it be art song, opera, oratorio or Broadway selections.
She also has considerable experience playing keyboard parts in orchestral settings and has done so with Kennett, Delaware, York and Lancaster Symphonies. She performed with New York & Philadelphia Choral Arts Societies and the Delaware Symphony in a performance of Mahler’s 8th Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall in New York and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
Elizabeth served as pianist/vocal coach for the opera program at West Chester University. In March 2019, Elizabeth was Music Director for WC University’s performance of the opera: Tenderland, by Aaron Copland. In 2018, during a sabbatical leave position at Neumann University, she taught private voice and piano lessons, and directed the University Chorale. While accompanying for the Strings International Music Festival in Philadelphia, Elizabeth performed with the festival chamber orchestra in Verizon Hall of the Kimmel Center. She also performed at the Kimmel Center as part of the Celebration of 150 years of Steinway Pianos. Elizabeth has served as accompanist for the Bucks County Choral Society, Lutheran Summer Music Festival, Foulger International Music Festival, and pianist//vocal coach for the Germantown Institute for the Vocal Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
A graduate of the University of Michigan, Curtis Institute of Music, and University of the Arts, Elizabeth’s teachers have included Susan Starr, and Vladimir Sokoloff. While pursuing a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance at the University of the Arts, she received the Ezerman Piano Award, recognizing excellence in performance, and the President’s Award for Academic and Artistic Achievement. Overseas musical studies include a Diploma in Piano and Chamber Music from L’ecole D’ Art Americaines, Fontainbleau, France. Elizabeth also has training on organ from studies with David Spicer and Robert Elmore. Elizabeth offers piano accompanying and coaching services on her website:
What my clients say
“I sing everything from jazz, to gospel, to opera. Over the years, I have had difficulty finding collaborative pianists who could convincingly handle all the genres that I sing. Then I met Beth, and that all changed.”