AMY SCHROEDER
VIOLIN GUEST ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

New York based violinist and pedagogue Amy Schroeder is a founding member of the two-time

GRAMMY award winning Attacca Quartet and has been hailed by the Washington Post as ‘an impressive artist whose playing combines imagination and virtuosity.’ As first violinist of the versatile and genre bending group Attacca Quartet, Ms. Schroeder can be heard on Billie Eilish’s most recent album, ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ which they recorded the same week they performed live with Miss Eilish and her brother Finneas on Saturday Night Live. The quartet is also featured on two soundtracks released this fall: one written by Finneas on the Apple TV+ mini series ‘Disclaimer’ directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and the other written by Caroline Shaw for Ken Burns’s new two-part documentary ‘Leonardo da Vinci.’ With the Attacca Quartet, Ms. Schroeder can be heard on several critically acclaimed recordings: Nonesuch Records: GRAMMY award winning Caroline Shaw/Attacca Quartet ‘Evergreen,’ Nonesuch/New Amsterdam Records the GRAMMY award winning album, Shaw/Attacca Quartet 'Orange,' Sony Classical: ‘Of All Joys,’ and ‘Real Life,’ as well as Azica Records: “Fellow Traveler” the complete works of John Adams, Haydn: “Seven Last Words,” and “Songlines,” works of Michael Ippolito. 

Ms. Schroeder has soloed with orchestras across the globe including the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, the Spanish National Orchestra, the Colombia National Orchestra, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, the Amherst Symphony, the Clarence Symphony, and the Hilton Head Symphony. An avid chamber musician she plays in the Schroeder Umansky Duo with her husband, Felix Umansky and Trio Raconteur with Umansky and their friend and colleague Yalin Chi. In 2002 Schroeder was the recipient of the Henrietta and Albert J. Ziegle Jr. Scholarship, which provided the tuition for her studies at Juilliard where she was a student of Sally Thomas and the Juilliard String Quartet. Growing up in Buffalo, NY, Ms. Schroeder began her violin studies with Karen Campbell and Thomas Halpin. She currently plays on two different violins, a Fernando Gagliano made in 1771 on loan to her from the Five Partners Foundation, and a violin made by Nathan Slobodkin in 2012. In New York Ms. Schroeder teaches violin and piano to students of all ages, and in her spare time she enjoys being with her baby daughter and husband, composing, doing crafty things, and when given the opportunity - scuba diving.
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