Elisabeth L. Lomax, DMA was born on July 27, 1959 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised in Kansas City. Her piano teachers were Kay Carlson, Joanne Baker, and John Mcintyre, and her post-graduate composition studies were with Jeanne Cotter. She earned three degrees from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, two in Piano Performance and a Doctorate in Music Education with an emphasis on Piano Pedagogy. Her primary interests are in the future of piano pedagogy, group teaching, arranging, music technology, and early music education. Currently Dr. Lomax teaches privately in the Kansas City area and is active as a church musician. She enjoys creating works for her private students and for use in church work. These arrangements utilize folk songs collected by two members of her family, John and Alan Lomax.

Lomax is also active in the National Federation of Music Clubs as an instructor, adjudicator, and workshop leader. In 1999 she was named the winner of the Missouri Federation of Music Clubs Adult Composers' Contest. A book of her arrangements for intermediate-level pianists will be published by Mel Bay.