Violin

Amy Rawstron Watson performs throughout the United States on modern and historical violins in both chamber music and orchestral repertoire. She holds principal positions with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Endless Mountain Music Festival and Venice Symphony as well as regular appearances with the South Florida Symphony, Connecticut Early Music Festival and Handel and Haydn Society.

Amy’s many collaborations include Chicago’s Baroque Band, Arcadia Players, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Springfield Symphony, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Symphony New Hampshire, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, South Florida Symphony and festivals in Kneisel Hall, Tanglewood, Connecticut and Aspen, as well as with popular artists, Josh Groban, Lindsey Stirling, Page and Plant, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Celtic Woman, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin and Jethro Tull among many others.

Amy studied with Robert Koff and Roman Totenberg in Boston, later graduating from the Mannes College of Music in New York City, where her teachers included Isadore Cohen, Sally Thomas and Lewis Kaplan.