Amanda Roth

Amanda Roth started playing the violin when she was four years old. She followed her passion for music and is currently pursing a Master of Music in Violin Performance at the Longy School of Music under the tutelage of Paula Majerfeld. She recently relocated to Massachusetts after receiving a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance, Violin Concentration from the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University where she studied with Dr. Vladimir Dyo. Her previous instructors include Joan Cordas, Joe Deninzon, and Zach Brock. To supplement her musical education, she has participated in a number of summer programs including the Aria International Summer Academy, the Chautauqua Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, he New York Summer Music Festival, the Mark Wood Rock Orchestra Camp, and the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at Juilliard.

Amanda has performed in a wide variety of ensembles and settings. She has been a member of Temple University's Grammy Nominated Symphony Orchestra, the Temple University Opera Orchestra, the Longy Conservatory Orchestra, and the Waukesha Area Chamber Orchestra, where she has held the positions of both concertmaster and principal second violin. She has performed at such major venues as the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. She was involved in the 2011 North American premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas' Sieben Klangräume and the 2013 world premiere of Michael Daugherty's Reflections on the Mississippi with tuba soloist Carol Jantsch. This past September, she collaborated with dancer and choreographer Jenna Wurtzberger for the premiere of her multi-media dance performance, Umwelten (their technologies, your processes). Amanda regularly performs in chamber ensembles and can be found playing for weddings, functions, and pit orchestras throughout Massachusetts. Throughout her many performances, she has shared the stage with Rachel Barton Pine, various members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and ex-Trans-Siberian Orchestra violinist, Mark Wood. Besides playing traditional classical violin repertoire, Amanda also enjoys exploring the world of jazz, funk, country, and rock-n-roll on her six-string fretted electric violin made by Wood Violins. In 2015, she was a featured soloist with the 63rd Army Band on her electric violin.

Besides performing, Amanda is passionate about teaching and giving back to the community. With the help of Rick Henry and Isaac Young, she started OWLchestra in 2015, a community string orchestra at Temple University. Before making the move to MA, she taught violin and viola for the Philadelphia String Project and Temple Prep's Community Music Scholars Program. Currently, Amanda is a teaching assistant for the orchestra at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and a violin and viola teaching at Music Elements in Chelmsford, MA.