Flutist Elizabeth Kleiber is an emerging artist active in orchestral, chamber, and solo performance. Based in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, she began her appointment as Second Flute and Piccolo with the Minnesota Opera in 2025. In January 2026, she will join the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra as Second Flute and Piccolo.

As an orchestral musician, Elizabeth has worked with a wide range of conductors, including Karina Canellakis, Stéphane Denève, David Donzmayr, William Eddins, Hans Graf, Giancarlo Guerrero, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Cristian Măcelaru, Matthias Pintscher, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, and Hugh Wolff. In 2024, she was a fellow with the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado, performing nearly 20 different orchestra programs over 8 weeks. In 2025, Elizabeth was fellow at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, performing solo, chamber, and orchestral works as well as studying closely with Jim Walker and Tim Day.

As a competitor, Elizabeth won first prize in the 2023 Schubert Club Scholarship Competition in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2022, she won first prize in the 42nd James Pappoutsakis Competition in Boston, Massachusetts. Additionally, she has won first prize in the Thursday Musical Scholarship Competition and was named a Featured Artist in Minnesota Public Radio’s Minnesota Varsity competition.

As a soloist, Elizabeth has presented recitals at the Shepherd School of Music and the New England Conservatory. In 2022, she was honored to present the Fenwick Smith Tribute Recital in Boston’s Jordan Hall, performing works by Telemann, Copland, Gaubert, Martinů, and Valerie Coleman. In the Twin Cities, she has appeared on the Wirth Center’s Salon se Lève concert series. In 2019, she performed Valerie Coleman’s newly composed Famni Imen for Classical Minnesota Public Radio’s live showcase at the Fitzgerald Theater.

Elizabeth attended the Domaine Forget International Music Festival in 2022, where she studied with flutists Julien Beaudiment and Emmanuel Pahud. She has also participated in masterclasses led by Alberto Almarza, William Bennett, Jeffrey Khaner, Kathryn Lander, Robert Langevin, Soo-Kyung Park, and Gretchen Pusch.

Outside of music Elizabeth is passionate about dance and has performed with Boston Ballet as a supernumerary. She also owns many house plants, and two rescue rabbits. An avid traveler and hiker, Elizabeth has visited 24 US national parks.

In 2025, Elizabeth earned her Master of Music degree from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she studied with Marianne Gedigian. She also holds a Bachelor of Music (2023) from the New England Conservatory, where she studied under Cynthia Meyers of the Boston Symphony. Her earlier teachers include Julia Bogorad-Kogan and Susie Kuniyoshi.