Elizabeth Anaya Sheils is a music educator located in South Norwalk, CT. Currently enrolled in the University of Bridgeport’s Masters of Music Education program, she teaches music and fosters creativity in students of all ages and hopes to make a difference in the lives of others with music.

Elizabeth holds a double bachelor's degree in Music and Communication with distinction and awards from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has engaged a wide variety of musical genres in her experiences and has connected with their communities via her art, webcasting, and research, which extends from the her cross-discipline presentation on music and communication at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology's annual conference at Brown University in 2015 called "Sharing Virtual Music Communities Through Collaborative Internet Radio Programming".

With over 20 years of experience on the violin, Elizabeth has been featured on stage and in various recording projects with the likes of STL GLD, Peter Mulvey, Esh the Monolith, Billy Dean Thomas, Poor Eliza, and The Gypsy West. For her solo project, Elizabeth composes instrumentals and writes songs for the public available on SoundCloud. Her work has been selected by the Cambridge Philharmonic and performed at Harvard. She also dedicates her energies to the intuitive fusion hiphop music of Sidestep Complex, a performance and recording project with her husband.