Amos Lawrence
Amos Lawrence, Assistant Concertmaster of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina since 1997, has also performed with the Teatro Communale "Maggio Musicale Fiorentino" in Florence Italy, in the "International Musician's Seminar" at Prussia Cove in Great Britain, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the Scotia Festival in Halifax Canada, the Colorado Festival of Music in Boulder Colorado, the Baroque Performance Institute in Oberlin Ohio, the Taos School of Music in New Mexico, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara California, and the Israel Festival in Caesaria Israel. Mr. Lawrence has served on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina, and the College of Charleston, in South Carolina.
Amos Lawrence won the Sanford Competition at age 14, which enabled him to attend the North Carolina School of the Arts, and study with Vartan Manoogian on a full scholarship. At the age of eighteen, he entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with the legendary Ivan Galamian. He received his Master's degree with a Distinction in Performance honor from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He participated with Russian artists in the "Making Music Together" Festival in Boston in 1986 where he worked with such composers as Alfred Schnittke, Leon Kirchner, and Gunther Schuller. In famed Jordan Hall he has performed on violin and viola such works as Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" and "Ode to Napoleon". He collaborated in chamber music performances with members of the Toho Gakuen School from Japan. In addition, he has had the great honor to play for such artists as Yehudi Menuhin, (Vieuxtemps Concerto #2) and Nathan Milstein (Ysaye "Ballade"). At the Meadowmount School of Music in upper state New York, he has performed such works as the William Walton violin concerto and Alban Berg string quartet opus #3.