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, and in that orchestra's 1986 tour of Spain. He has played 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 Piccolo Spoleto Music Festival in Charleston South Carolina, the Colorado Festival of Music in Boulder Colorado, the Baroque Performance Institute in Oberlin Ohio, the Breckenridge Music Institute in Colorado, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara California, the Bowdoin Festival of Music in Maine, the "Castello di Cennina" in Buccine Italy, and the Israel Festival in Caesaria Israel. Mr. Lawrence has served on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina, the Tennessee Valley Strings Camp in Huntsville Alabama, and the College of Charleston, in South Carolina.
Amos Lawrence's education and training began with the piano at age five. Progressing from the recorder to the violin, he attended the Greenwood Music Camp and 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 this time, he benefited enormously from a collaboration with the famous pianist Lili Kraus, who tutored him in sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven. At sixteen, he was the youngest member of the "International Orchestra" which toured Italy in the summer of 1977.
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. There he experienced the role of concertmaster, won the Charles Ely Scholarship award, was a prize winner in the Courts Sonata Competition, and a winner of the NEC Chamber Music Gala Competition.
He participated with Russian artists in the "Making Music Together" Festival in Boston in 1986. There 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 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 the William Walton violin concerto and Alban Berg string quartet opus #3.
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