Equally versatile as chamber musician, concertmaster, soloist, and educator, Amy Schwartz Moretti tours as a founding member of one of the world’s most revered string quartets, the Ehnes Quartet. Other recent performances include the 2019 premiere of Christopher Alan Schmitz’s Violin Concerto written for her, and concerts from Korea and Hawaii to Georgia, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. Her festival appearances this summer included Bridgehampton, ChamberFest Cleveland, La Jolla, Meadowmount, Seattle, and Manchester Music Festival. Moretti is former concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony and Florida Orchestra. She has served as guest concertmaster for the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Houston, Pittsburgh; the New York Pops and Hawaii Pops; and the festival orchestras of Brevard, Colorado and Grand Teton. Moretti was awarded The Cleveland Institute of Music’s Alumni Achievement Award, was the 2014 San Francisco Conservatory of Music Fanfare Honoree, and was recently selected as one of 2018 Musical America’s “Top 30 Professionals of the Year.” Since 2007, she has been Director of the McDuffie Center for Strings and has developed the Fabian Concert Series; she also holds the Caroline Paul King Chair, teaching in the Mercer University Townsend School of Music. She lives in Georgia with her husband and two sons.
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