Amy Schroeder is a founding member of the GRAMMY award winning Attacca
Quartet and has been hailed by the Washington Post as “an
impressive artist whose playing combines imagination and virtuosity.”
She has soloed with orchestras including the Buffalo Philharmonic,
the Amherst Symphony, the Clarence Symphony, the Hilton Head Symphony,
the Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra, the Spanish National Orchestra
with composer John Adams conducting, and the Cabrillo Festival
Orchestra.
The Attacca Quartet signed an exclusive recording deal with Sony Classical in 2021 and has since released two critically acclaimed albums on the label: “Real Life,” consisting of electronic music arranged and adapted for string quartet by the Attacca Quartet and electronic composer collaborators, and “Of All Joys,” an album of renaissance music juxtaposed with works from the minimalist period. Amy can also be heard on several critically acclaimed albums released by Azica Records: “Fellow Traveler” works of John Adams, “Seven Last Words,” by Haydn, “Songlines,” works of Michael Ippolito, and on Nonesuch/New Amsterdam Records, the GRAMMY award winning album, Shaw/Attacca Quartet ‘Orange.’
Amy also performs in the Schroeder Umansky Duo with her husband, cellist Felix Umansky of the Harlem Quartet. 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. She has performed at the SLLMF since 2019.
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