Andrea Schultz, violin

Violinist Andrea Schultz enjoys an active and versatile musical life as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician. Based in New York City, she currently performs with a wide array of groups, including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Riverside Symphony, New York Oratorio Society, and the New York Chamber Ensemble. A devotee of contemporary music, Schultz was a long-time member of Sequitur and has been involved in the premieres of more than a hundred works with groups that include Either/Or, Cygnus, Locrian Chamber Players, Eberli Ensemble, Cabrini Quartet, Da Capo Chamber Players, NY Composer's Circle, and the League of Composers. She has recorded contemporary chamber music for the Naxos, Albany, New World, and Phoenix labels. She was also a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble for many years, touring the US, Britain, Japan, and Australia; and has performed as guest with the Cassatt String Quartet, Perspectives Ensemble, Sherman Chamber Ensemble, Avery Ensemble, SONYC, and the Apple Hill Chamber Players.

Schultz spends summers performing and teaching at the Kinhaven Music School, the Wintergreen Music Festival, and the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East. A graduate of Yale College, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Stony Brook University, Schultz studied violin with Betty-Jean Hagen, Paul Kantor, Donald Weilerstein, and Joyce Robbins. She plays on a violin made in 1997 by Stefan-Peter Greiner.