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/Piccolo with the Minnesota Opera in 2025, and in 2026, she joined the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in the same role.

As an orchestral musician, Elizabeth has also performed as a substitute with the Minnesota Orchestra. In 2024, she was a fellow with the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado, performing nearly 20 different orchestra concert programs over eight weeks. In 2025, Elizabeth was a fellow at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, where she performed solo, chamber, and orchestral works while studying closely with Jim Walker and Tim Day.

Elizabeth has received recognition in several competitions. She won first prize in the 2023 Schubert Club Scholarship Competition in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 2022, she won first prize in the 42nd James Pappoutsakis Competition in Boston, Massachusetts. That same year, 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.

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 28 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.