Pianist Eliza Garth has achieved international distinction as a performer of contemporary music and the standard repertoire, through her recordings and her appearances in major cities in the U.S. and abroad. Well known for her adventurous programming, she has championed some of the most demanding works in the repertoire.

Ms. Garth's recordings of the complete piano works of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Donald Martino have attracted national critical acclaim. The first of these, her debut solo CD, was the first-ever recording devoted entirely to Martino's solo piano music, including his monumental works Pianississimo and Fantasies and Impromptus. In a New York Times survey of its own music critics' favorite recordings of music written since 1945, Anthony Tommasini included this CD.

Eliza Garth is noted in New York as a creative recitalist, through projects such as her solo recital of "New Music from Britain and the US." After completing her studies at The Juilliard School, she made her New York recital debut the following year with an all-Alban Berg concert of solo and chamber works that included the Chamber Concerto For Piano, Violin, and Thirteen Wind Instruments, conducted by Harvey Sollberger.

Since then, Ms. Garth has performed over 150 new works, more than 50 of them premieres, including numerous works written for her. Most recent among this is Gradualia, a new piano concerto by the American composer Scott Wheeler. In collaboration with conductor Jeffrey Silberschlag, she performed the world premiere of Gradualia at the 2006 Alba Music Festival, and the American premiere at the 2006 River Concert Series at St. Mary's College of Maryland. In the spring of 2007 Ms. Garth returned to the Alba Festival to perform John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes.

A founding member of the Chamber Players of the League - I.S.C.M. in New York City, Ms. Garth also is in frequent demand as a guest artist. She has made guest appearances for the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore, the Rotterdam (Holland) Arts Council, Collage (at Symphony Hall in Boston), the Twentieth Century Consort (at the Smithsonian Institution), Parnassus, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, the New Music Consort, the Fromm Foundation concert series (Boston), and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among many others.

Ms. Garth's recording (with violinist Rolf Schulte and cellist Eric Bartlett) of The Open Secret, a piano trio by Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec, can be heard on the CRI label. Her recording of David Froom's Piano Suite, written for her with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, was released on the Arabesque label. Her recordings for Opus One include Six Little Pieces for four hands by Arnold Schoenberg, and the complete duo piano music of Frank Martin (both with pianist Yolanda Liepa). Ms. Garth's performances have been heard on the BBC Radio 3, WQXR and WNYC in New York, WBUR and WHRV in Boston, Radio de las Suisse Romande in Geneva, WGUC in Cincinnati, WUSF radio and television in Tampa, and Vatican Radio in Rome.

As a member of the faculty of St. Mary's College of Maryland, Ms. Garth and her pianist colleagues Brian Ganz and Beverly Babcock conduct Piano Fest, an annual summer festival of workshops, recitals, and masterclasses for pianists that is part of the River Concert Series. In the fall of 2005, she traveled to China with several of her faculty colleagues to appear in the centennial celebration at Fudan University in Shanghai, and to give performances in Beijing and Dalian.

Ms Garth has been recognized by the Maryland State Arts Council with an Individual Artist Award.