Elizabeth Linares Montero, a Venezuelan horn player, was formed in the internationally known El Sistema and graduated with a Master’s degree from the Colburn School in 2022. 

She has performed under the baton of renowned conductors like Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Antonio Pappano, Valery Gergiev, and Zubin Mehta. She has also performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Diego Symphony, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and others.