Amanda Verner - viola

The New York Times has described New Zealand violist Amanda Verner's playing as “alluring” and “passionate”. 

Following her undergraduate study at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Jeffrey Irvine, Amanda received an Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, under the tutelage of renowned violists Roberto Diaz, Misha Amory and Michael Tree. 

She is currently a member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and has previously held a position with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London.

In 2013, Amanda gave her solo debut at Carnegie Hall, performing Steve Mackey’s “Ground Swell”. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Sanguine Estate Music Festival and Bendigo Chamber Music Festival in Australia, as well as the Martinborough Music Festival and At the Worlds Edge Festival in New Zealand. She is Artistic Director and founder of the Cambridge Chamber Music Festival in New Zealand.

Amanda has toured extensively with the Verbier Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Gábor Takács-Nagy, performed with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Grange au lac with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, and Daniel Harding, Les dissonances, Concertgebouw Kamerorkest and Camerata RCO. 

An experienced orchestral musician, she has played guest principal with the Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras as well as the Philharmonia Orchestra in London. She has also performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera House London, Orchestra Rèvolutionnaire et Romantique, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.