Elizabeth Schultze is a native of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and a graduate of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music where she studied with Andor Toth, Jr. Further studies abroad have included studies in Copenhagen, Denmark with Erling Blondal Bengtsson, in N0rway with Frans Helmersson, and in London with William Pleeth. She has been a member of the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, the Upsala (Sweden) Chamber Orchestra and the Bergen (Norway) Philarmonic Orchestra. She has also performed with the Atlanta Symphony, the Royal Danish Orchestra, the Turin (Italy) Radio Orchestra, the Danish Radio Orchestra and the Stockholm Philarmonic. She has appeared at the Taos School of Music and performed at master classes at Prussia Cove in Cornwall, England. Elizabeth has also performed extensively with both the Colorado Philarmonic (now the NRO) and the Colorado Festival Ortchestra.

She currently teaches cello students at her home in Orleans, and she performs with the Cape Symphony and is an active chamber music performer and founding member of Giocosa Chamber Music and the Schultze-Ericsson Cello Duo.

As organizers, producers and performers for four "In Praise of Cellos!" concerts held in Wellfleet, MA. Elizabeth and her husband, Bo Ericsson, helped to raise funds for the string programs in the towns of Wellfleet and Truro. She directs the String Ensemble at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School.

Elizabeth lives in East Orleans with her husband and is a proud mom to cellists Sam and Annika.

Bo Ericsson, a native of Skovde, Sweden, graduated from Gothenborg Conservatory of Music and the Swedish Radio School of Music in Stockholm where he studied with Erling Bengtsson. Further studies included Anthony Pini and William Pleeth in London and the Amadeus String Quarter in Cologne, Germany. Mr. Ericsson has performed with the Gothenborg Symphony, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Upsala Chamber Soloists and served for six years as the principal cellist with the Bergen (Norway) Philharmonic.  A founding member of the Berwald String Quartet, he toured all over Europe with that group in performances that included the premiere works of many of the Continent’s top composers.  Mr. Ericsson was the principal cellist for the Cape Symphony from 1991 – 2017, and is an active and much sought-after performer of chamber music, including his work with his wife, Liz, in the Schultze-Ericsson Cello Duo.  Mr. Ericsson and Ms. Schultze live in East Orleans where he also operates a workshop repairing violins and cellos.