Elisabeth Small's multi-faceted career has touched upon a wide realm of possibilities for a violinist: university professor, symphonic player, soloist, chamber musician, studio musician, NYC freelancer, clinician, presenter and adjudicator. She continues to enjoy performing, leading masterclasses and teaching privately.

Small, now Professor Emerita at the Belmont University School of Music, shepherded and developed the String Department there as Coordinator of Strings over 38 years. She received her Bachelor and Master degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Dorothy DeLay.

Her varied career includes engagements as soloist with orchestra, including the National, Atlanta and Nashville Symphonies, chamber music and recital broadcasts on regional television and on public radio stations in the U.S. and Canada, at festivals, as well as service as Associate Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony. Small's 2015 solo/piano-trio tour of eight cities in China included performances and master classes at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Tianjin Conservatory, Nanjing Culture and Arts Center, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Guangzhou Xinghai Conservatory of Music, and Shenzen Concert Hall. Pre-covid, she and her husband, Carl Marsh, collaborated to perform Bach & the Blues in London, UK, and Geneva, Switzerland. Elisabeth has led master classes and clinics as far afield as the Dresden Hochschule in Germany, and many of her presentations at national ASTA and state conferences have focused on muscular-skeletal injury prevention.