Elizabeth Jacoby earned a Master of Music from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Music from the State University of New York at Fredonia. She performed in the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, the Rappahannock Pops Orchestra, the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra, the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra, and the Fredericksburg String Quartet. She has taught elementary and middle school orchestras in New Jersey and Virginia. Currently, she teaches violin and orchestra with the Upbeat Strings Program with the Nashua, NH school district, teaches with the Community Lesson Program at Fitchburg State University, and homeschools her own two children.