SCMS Debut: 2007 Summer Festival
Violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti is an active performing artist whose career centers on chamber music, recital and solo appearances, and festival performances. She performs regularly at leading music festivals and concert series worldwide and is a member of the internationally acclaimed Ehnes Quartet.
Her career began as concertmaster of The Florida Orchestra and later the Oregon Symphony. She has served as guest concertmaster with major orchestras, including the Atlanta, Grand Teton, Grant Park, Houston, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras. In 2007, Moretti moved to Georgia, where she served as the inaugural Director of Mercer University’s McDuffie Center for Strings, a role she held through 2026. From the program’s inception, she helped shape this full-scholarship program for gifted young musicians while maintaining an active performing career. She also held a full professorship, taught the Center’s violinists, and founded the Fabian Concert Series, bringing distinguished guest artists to campus.
Her discography includes multiple Juno Award–winning recordings on Chandos, Harmonia Mundi, and Onyx Classics. Recent projects include a 2024 Navona Records release of a concerto written for her by Christopher Schmitz, as well as the documentary Chaos Becomes Order, documenting her collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra.
She performs on a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin made in Paris in 1874.
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