Elizabeth Holler Ransom, flutist, is known to audiences in North Carolina as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra player, and she has also performed on several occasions throughout the Southeast ern United States and in Europe. She can be heard performing in the Winston-Salem Symphony, the Carolina Chamber Symphony Players, and the Ransom-Pecoraro Duo (flute and guitar). Ms. Ransom has served on the music faculties of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Davidson College, Lenoir-Rhyne College, and the New England Music Camp.

Ms. Ransom enjoys a dual career as a performing musician and arts administrator. She was a founding artistic co-director of the Carolina Summer Music Festival, and she is honored to serve currently as a major gifts development officer for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Ms. Ransom has taught music career development and musical outreach in courses at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and in workshops for other universities. The courses and workshops help to prepare emerging professional musicians for the many facets of a career in music, including performance, teaching, community and educational outreach, fundraising, grant writing and entrepreneurial project management. Ms. Ransom is recognized as a successful presenter of educational and community outreach programs, having served as education director for the Winston-Salem Symphony and the Carolina Chamber Symphony Players. She has been awarded numerous arts-in-education grants and has designed and presented outreach programs not only for orchestras but as a chamber musician and soloist. She has also been a member of the Winston-Salem Symphony’s Bolton Woodwind Quintet which received national and international acclaim for its innovative arts-in-education programs.

Ms. Ransom grew up in Bristol, Tennessee, and studied flute with Philip Dunigan at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, with the late Severino Gazzelloni in Siena, Italy, and as a Fulbright scholar with Ingrid Koch at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg, Germany. She studied not-for-profit management and fundraising at Salem College and at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy.

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