About

Elizabeth Salerno is a Korean-Italian-American flutist and piccoloist currently based in Oslo, Norway.

Elizabeth was awarded 1st Prize at the 2024 National Flute Association Piccolo Artist Competition and was also awarded the prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work. She is a laureate of several other international competitions including the Kujala International Piccolo Competition, the Carl D. Hall Piccolo Competition, the Dutch International Piccolo Competition, the San Francisco Flute Society, and the Tampere Flute Festival Piccolo Artist Competition.

Elizabeth also performs as a soloist and chamber musician and has substituted in several orchestras including the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (DR Symfoniorkester), Royal Danish Orchestra (Det Kongelige Kapel), Copenhagen Philharmonic, Esbjerg Ensemble, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Malmö Opera, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, and the Orchestra of Gran Canaria (Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria). As an educator, she has taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and has served on the juries of the Nordic Piccolo Artist Competition and the National Flute Association.

In 2025, Elizabeth became the first Artist Diploma student in piccolo at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo where she studied with Trond Magne Brekka. She also studied at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and the University of Iowa where her principal teachers included Peter Verhoyen, Ulla Miilmann, and Nicole Esposito.

Outside of music, Elizabeth enjoys running in the beautiful forests of Norway and is currently competing in the SuperHalf Series across Europe.