Adjudicators 2023-2024
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Liz Craig

Pianist
PRMF 2023/2024 - Junior Piano Adjudicator
Liz Craig (B.Mus, ARCT, ARCT, RMT) is an award winning, Toronto-based pianist with a passion for making every event special through live music. She has performed custom tailored live music on the piano for over 600 weddings & events in southern Ontario since 2013. She is the proud recipient of over 180 5 star reviews across WeddingWire & Google making her one of the highest rated musicians in the GTA. She has won the 2022 Toronto Choice Awards with EventSource.ca, the 2019 Knot.com Best of Weddings Award for the Ensembles & Soloists category and she has also won the WeddingWire Couples Choice Award back in 2016. While classically trained, Liz performs a wide variety of styles of music including her own arrangements of the newest popular tunes. Her song list is over 1000 and counting! She loves collaborating with other musicians to create duos, trios etc. with her most popular duo being piano & violin. She enjoys fruitful relationships with many of the cities' top venues and wedding planners and enjoys being part of a flourishing industry!
 
Besides performing regularly, Liz has been teaching piano and music theory lessons full time since 2006. She offers a student-centered curriculum which focuses on developing musical literacy from beginning to advanced levels. Her students thrive in their musical life, often becoming known as the "piano kid" at their school, performing all over Toronto and getting paid professional gigs as well as becoming piano teachers themselves.
 
In her formative years, she had the privilege of studying with Juilliard alumnus Dr. David Moroz at the University of Manitoba where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance. She also holds ARCT Diplomas in both Piano Performance and Pedagogy. Since 2015, Liz has adjudicated at ten different musical festivals and became a member of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators’ Association, the RCM College of Examiners and the Conservatory Canada examining team. She is quite active with the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association where she serves as Past President & Secretary of the Central Toronto Branch.

Liz has been interviewed on both the Top Music and Full Voice podcasts due to her unique perspective as an entrepreneur in both the wedding and teaching industries. She has been known to put her passions into words for the CMT Magazine, Notes Magazine and the topmusic.co blog. Liz keeps her finger on the pulse of current music education and business trends by attending and presenting at conferences throughout North America.
 
Follow along @lizcraigpianist or visit www.lizcraig.ca