ELIZABETH
PFAFFLE
PROFESSOR, HORN
223, Swope Music Building
EPfaffle@wcupa.edu
Education
- D.M. (Brass Pedagogy), Indiana University
- M.M. (Horn Performance), The University of Akron
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Elizabeth Pfaffle is the Professor of Horn at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She is active as a solo, chamber, and orchestral performer. Liz has performed solo and chamber recitals at both Steinway and Carnegie Hall on numerous occasions with the WCU faculty woodwind quintet, Quintsylvania Winds and faculty brass Quintet, Kryos Brass. Her orchestral experience includes performances with the Delaware Symphony, OperaDelaware, Pennsylvania Ballet, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Lancaster Symphony, Reading Symphony, Walnut Street Theater, Allentown Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, Liberty Wind Symphony, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and both Akron, and Youngstown symphonies.
Liz can be heard on the Mark Masters and MSR Classics labels which include a recording of American music for brass and wind ensemble entitled Shadowcatcher (2011). A collaborative recording project with Jonathan Fowler features works by Alec Wilder entitled Wilder-ness for tuba and horn. Blessings Flow released in 2019, features the Gordon Jacob Concerto for Horn with the West Chester University Wind Ensemble. In 2025, Quintsylvania Winds, the faculty woodwind quintet, will release a recording of works by Mark Haggerty and Joseph Gregorio and other area composers.
Liz received a master's in horn performance from the University of Akron and a doctorate from Indiana University. Upon completion of her Doctor of Music degree, she served as a lecturer in the brass department at Indiana University for two years. Her primary teachers include William Hoyt, Karen Schneider, Michael Hatfield and Richard Seraphinoff.
Videos and Audio
CAP Faculty Jeff Nelsen, Suite for Cello in G Major, BMV 1007 - Prelude