Elisabeth Smalt was born in The Nederlands, and is a freelance chamber musician based in Amsterdam, playing music of all eras. Since 1996 she has been a member of the Brussels-based ensemble Oxalys. She also plays with the Prisma string trio, the Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet, and Trio Scordatura. In 2001 she commissioned an exact copy of Harry Partch's Adapted Viola, and is one of the few musicians to play Partch's music in this authentic way. Elisabeth is an authority on issues in the performance practice of microtonal music on bowed strings, and has given Dutch premières of viola works by Horatiu Radulescu, James Tenney, Lou Harrison, Frank Denyer, Phill Niblock and Harry Partch. Recent recordings featuring Elisabeth as viola soloist have appeared on Mode Records (Christian Wolff's Violist Pieces and Frank Denyer's Woman, Viola and Crow), Tzadik (Jerry Hunt's Chimanzzi) and New World Records (James Tenney's Koan). She is co-director of Amsterdam's KlankKleurFestival, a two-yearly gathering of chamber musicians and visual artists.