Elisabeth Commanday Swim, M.A. & NACYT draws out her student's strengths and guides them smoothly through the dynamic challenges of reading, singing and playing music.
Elisabeth holds a master's degree in Music Performance from Hunter College in New York City, where she studied classical voice from the late Norma Newton, who also counted among her students numerous Houston Grand Opera artists. At Hunter, she received the Shirley P. Mintz prize for excellence in musicianship.
Elisabeth teaches piano to students of diverse levels, aged three to adult. She has accompanied voice lessons and choir rehearsals, and performed as a pianist and organist in churches throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Founder of the Secret Choir, Elisabeth led fun, group singing for adults and teens in varied spaces near Houston, funded by a Let Creativity Happen grant from the Houston Arts Alliance.
She was a featured soloist at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and at St. Sulpice Cathedral in Paris, France. Her voice can be heard on disc with Volti, on the album *Turn the Page *(Innova). With the internationally-renowned Kronos Quartet, she performed the voice of Russian Doll Cheburashka on the album *Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic* (Nonesuch). In Houston, she has performed at the Via Colori festival benefitting the Center for Hearing and Speech and won the A.R. Rahman singing competition held in Sugar Land in 2010.
Elisabeth had a great time in the title role of Carlitos and the Magic Garden, a handmade puppet show by Tania Esmeralda Padilla.
She is on Instagram as well as Soundcloud, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
Elisabeth teaches piano to students of diverse levels, aged three to adult. She has accompanied voice lessons and choir rehearsals, and performed as a pianist and organist in churches throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Founder of the Secret Choir, Elisabeth led fun, group singing for adults and teens in varied spaces near Houston, funded by a Let Creativity Happen grant from the Houston Arts Alliance.
She was a featured soloist at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and at St. Sulpice Cathedral in Paris, France. Her voice can be heard on disc with Volti, on the album *Turn the Page *(Innova). With the internationally-renowned Kronos Quartet, she performed the voice of Russian Doll Cheburashka on the album *Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic* (Nonesuch). In Houston, she has performed at the Via Colori festival benefitting the Center for Hearing and Speech and won the A.R. Rahman singing competition held in Sugar Land in 2010.
Elisabeth had a great time in the title role of Carlitos and the Magic Garden, a handmade puppet show by Tania Esmeralda Padilla.
She is on Instagram as well as Soundcloud, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
An absolute blessing to my children.– Parent of 10-year-old and 8 year-old musicians
All three of my children stopped in their tracks to listen when I put on your song! – Parent of preschool and elementary-aged musicians
