MEET THE ORCHESTRA

Amanda Brin, a native of Rochester, New York, is a founding member and first violinist of the Hyperion String Quartet. Her playing has been praised for its “lusciousness and great pathos” by Classical Voice of North Carolina and as a member of the quartet, she won first prizes at the Coleman, Music Teachers National Association and Green Lake chamber music competitions, and was the bronze medal prizewinner at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. The Quartet was hailed by The Strad magazine for their “uncommonly high level of homogeneity and confidence”. Amanda has performed as soloist with the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra in New York and has also appeared at festivals including the Strings in the Mountains Festival, Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and SummerFest La Jolla. From 2007 to 2018, she was the Principal Second Violin of the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra. She currently spends her summers performing as Assistant Concertmaster of the Lake Placid Sinfonietta in New York. Dedicated to teaching, Amanda has served on the faculty at the Hartt School Community Division, The College of Saint Rose, Connecticut College, Skidmore College and SUNY Adirondack. Amanda was recently named Director of the Chamber Music Connection (CMC) program at The Hochstein School in Rochester, New York. Amanda holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Kent State University. Her principal violin teachers include Ilya Kaler, Timothy Ying, Sandy Yamamoto, Ivan Chan and Cathy Meng Robinson and she studied viola with Chauncey Patterson.  She is married to cellist, Jonathan Brin, and they have three children, Annabelle, Elliott and Oliver.