Elizabeth Mazur-Johnson, native of Suffield, Connecticut and Warwick, Rhode Island, attended Arizona State University and New England Conservatory of Music followed by summer studies at the Music Academy of the West and two consecutive Tanglewood Fellowships at the Berkshire Music Center. She continued horn studies in Chicago while a member of the Civic Orchestra.
She is a former member of the Richmond Symphony, Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, and the Lake Forest Symphony. She has subbed with the Chicago Symphony, played backstage at Lyric Opera, and has a varied background in the musical community including playing on over five hundred radio and TV jingles and recordings. In addition to this, Ms. Mazur-Johnson has played in the pit orchestra for several Broadway touring musicals in Chicago and on their national tours. Her teachers included Eugene Chausow, Dale Clevenger, John Barrows, James Decker, Fred Fox and Arnold Jacobs.
Ms. Mazur-Johnson has had solo appearances with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Polish American Congress, and the American Women Composers, and has extensive chamber music experience. Presently, she is a member of the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, the City Lights Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, and the Chicago Horn Consort.
Ms. Mazur-Johnson resides in Wilmette with her family, including three rescue dogs. She teaches horn privately at New Trier High School and in her studio at home. Recently, she was a guest performer at the International Horn Symposium in Memphis and at the 2013 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic.