Elizabeth Manus brings a diverse background to her activity as a professional pianist.  She accompanies choral groups as well as solo singers, instrumentalists and orchestral ensembles. She has also appeared as a solo recitalist. Currently, Ms. Manus is the accompanist for the Bucks County Choral Society, and serves on the piano faculty of Muhlenberg College. Recently, she joined the Music Department of Lafayette College as an accompanist, and also accompanies for the Haverford/Bryn Mawr College Chorale.  During the summer of 2006, Ms. Manus was an accompanist for the New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine, where she accompanied for student and faculty recitals. In 2004, she accompanied for the Strings International Music Festival, Philadelphia, PA., during which she performed with the festival chamber orchestra in Verizon Hall. Given her interest in contemporary music, Ms. Manus was selected to perform in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2002.

At the Kimmel Center in 2002, she performed as part of the Celebration of 150 years of Steinway Pianos. She has served as accompanist for the Music Group of Philadelphia, and for the Singing City Choir which was featured in the International Choral Festival de Cuba, Havana, Cuba. In a performance with Voces Novae et Antiquae, she was a featured pianist in the chamber music version of the Brahms Requiem. She performed as pianist with Choral Arts Society and the Delaware Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mahler's 8th Symphony given at Avery Fisher Hall in New York and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Ms. Manus has presented recitals at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Ethical Society, the Painted Bride Theater, and the Academy of Music Ballroom.

Ms. Manus holds a Master's Degree in Piano Performance from the University of the Arts, where she was the recipient of the Ezerman Piano Award recognizing excellence in performance, and the President's Award for academic and artistic achievement. She also holds a diploma in Piano Accompanying from the Curtis Institute of Music, and a Bachelor's Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Michigan. Her teachers have included Susan Starr and Vladimir Sokoloff. She resides in the Philadelphia area.