MEET AMY BETH

A passionate teacher and performer, Amy Beth Horman has enjoyed an active solo career as soloist and recitalist throughout the US and Europe. She made her debut with the National Symphony at age 15 performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto. A graduate of the Paris Conservatory of Music (CNSMDP), Ms. Horman received her first prize at age 15 and then was chosen that same year for their 3rd Cycle Artists Diploma program in the studio of violinist, Gerard Poulet. Previous teachers include Jody Gatwood (National Philharmonic Orchestra Concertmaster Emeritus) and Patricia Hurd (Wolf Trap Opera Orchestra, Washington Ballet Orchestra). 

Ms. Horman joined the Pre College faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory in 2019 where she now has a full studio of young violinists along with an active private home studio. 

Students of Amy Beth Horman have been selected for the Junior Division of the Menuhin Competition, the Boris Goldstein Competition, featured on From the Top and recipients of the Young Arts Foundation. Former students have also gone on to receive top prizes in the Junior Tchaikovsky Competition, The Cooper International Competition, the International Mozart Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and the Indianapolis Competition. 

Pursuing a full range of career options in classical music, Ms. Horman’s former students have not only embarked on major solo careers but are also landing coveted top seats in major symphony orchestras such as the LA Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. One former student, after receiving her masters degree in Contemporary Improvisation from NEC, was recently nominated for a Grammy playing fiddle and is now actively touring, producing, and writing her own albums! 

Ms. Horman is also the creator of the podcast "Beyond the Triangle", an award winning podcast written for the parents of young artists.

PRESS from solo Appearances below:

"Intelligence and emotional generosity... unerring sense of line and gift for highlighting important themes... She brought passionate intensity to a program of disparate works, from Franck's familiar Sonata in A and a Bach partita that sounded characteristically like the ruminative thoughts of the composer in measured reflection, to a sonata by Corigliano... Her vigorous reading of a soaring solo passage in the Corigliano... had members of the audience quietly craning their necks forward as if in hope of bathing a little deeper in her exceptionally warm tone.”
- The Washington Post