Beth Schneider-Gould made her soloist debut at the age of 16 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.  She has performed  throughout the United States including the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, and has toured Europe   with Sir George Solti and the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra.  She has performed chamber music  with many renowned artists including Lynn Harrell and Yefim Bronfman, has worked under conductors such as David Zinman, Neeme Jarvi, Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin and Christoph Dohnanyi, and has participated in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival,  the Meadowmount School of  Music, ENCORE, Music '98, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Hermopoulis International Guitar Festival in Greece, the Styrian Chamber Music Festival in Austria, the 2005 Guitar Foundation of America Conference and Competition, and in June 2006, the Cortona Contemporary Music Festival in Italy. A  graduate of  Indiana University and the University of Arizona, her primary teachers have included Linda Cerone, Victor Danchenko, Eugene Gratovich, Conny Kiradjieff, Andreas Reiner, Mark Rush, and Nelli Shkolnikova and her chamber coaches have included Henry Meyer from the Lasalle Quartet, Paul Katz from the Cleveland Quartet and Phillip Setzer from the Emerson Quartet. Beth has collaborated with composers from around the world including Karl Korte, Dan Asia and Jorge Liderman, in the creation of new duos for violin and guitar and mixed trios with cello, viola and piano. 

As a member of duo46, Beth has recorded two critically acclaimed discs featuring 20th/21st century music, including commissioned works by American composers, has performed in England, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, the U.S. and Austria, and has conducted residencies at Harvard, Wellesley College, University of Florida at Gainesville, University of Nebraska at Kearney and University of Minnesota at Duluth. Beth is a former member of the San Antonio Symphony and a former Senior Lecturer of Violin, Viola and Chamber music at Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Most currently, Beth is researching the teaching philosophy of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki at the Hartt School of Music.  

Beth Ilana records and performs on a 1985 Alceste Bulfari violin.