Teaching 22 years · Philadelphia Orchestra since 1998 · • · Essential Excerpts — Autumn cohort now open · • · Studio in Bryn Mawr, PA · Melbourne, FL · Online worldwide · • · 100+ students taught · Scholarships to Oberlin, Indiana, Eastman, Richmond
Teaching 22 years · Philadelphia Orchestra since 1998 · • · Essential Excerpts — Autumn cohort now open · • · Studio in Bryn Mawr, PA · Melbourne, FL · Online worldwide · • · 100+ students taught · Scholarships to Oberlin, Indiana, Eastman, Richmond
Richard Amoroso has performed as soloist with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, the North Penn Symphony, and in a trio recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Below is more information on an extraordinary performing career.
Violinist Richard Amoroso joined The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1998 after serving as a member of Concerto Soloists (now the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia), Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, and as a substitute violinist with the Orchestra. He also performed with various local music groups, including Pro Música, the Mendelssohn Club, the Philadelphia Singers, the Academy of Vocal Arts, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia (now Opera Philadelphia).
He has performed as soloist with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, the North Penn Symphony, and in a trio recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. He returned to Carnegie in 2004 to perform a solo recital, and has performed Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto with the Helena (MT) Symphony and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic.
Mr. Amoroso holds a bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College, from which he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. A native Philadelphian, he attended Settlement Music School on scholarship and studied with the Orchestra’s retired Concertmaster Norman Carol, former Co-Concertmaster William DePasquale, Rafael Druian, and retired Associate Concertmaster David Arben.
A working career in chamber, orchestral and solo settings around Philadelphia and beyond.
Performed as soloist with the Orchestra at the Academy of Music the following year — Mozart Concerto No. 4, first movement.
Section violin, later a member of the First Violin chair list as the ensemble became the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.
Won the position after three finals with the Cincinnati Symphony; a member of the Orchestra ever since.
Trio recital, and a solo recital on the return in 2004.
With the Helena (MT) Symphony and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic.
Academy of Vocal Arts and the Opera Company of Philadelphia (now Opera Philadelphia).
The Neapolitan instrument Richard plays in concert, in the studio and on the recordings below. It is also the reason tone is treated as a trainable technique at the studio: an eighteenth-century voice will only sound like one if the right hand knows what it is doing.
Audio and video from Richard’s own recordings. Experience the sound and precision of a seasoned orchestral performer.
To contact Richard Amoroso Sr., cellist, teacher and author, visit richardamorosocello.com.
Chamber commissions and new-work premieres have run alongside the orchestral season for two decades.
Everything on this page is also curriculum: the bowings, the nerves, the sixty seconds that decide a first round.
