Violinist Amy Galluzzo, a native of Kansas, moved to Great Britain where she began her violin studies and won a competition where a piece by composer Benjamin Winstanley was commissioned for her. She went on to study with Dona Lee Croft, a professor at the Royal College of Music, London, and to earn a Bachelors, and Masters with Honors, and a Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory in Boston, where she studied with Marylou Speaker Churchill and James Buswell, and was a finalist in the Naftzger Competition and the Concerto Competition. Amy has been praised for her “stunning rendition [of Danses sacrés et profanes]” (WGBH Boston) and her “incredible speed and energy” (Sarasota Herald Tribune).
Amy started her career in the Boston Philharmonic and Indian Hills orchestras. She has performed worldwide in halls such as London’s Barbican, Queen Elizabeth, Wigmore and Royal Albert Halls, St. John’s Smith Square and Southwark Cathedral, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Vienna‘s St. Steven’s Cathedral and the Koussevitsky Music Shed and Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood.
She has collaborated in chamber music concerts with artists including Masuko Ushioda, Carol Rodland, James Buswell and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has studied with members of the Borromeo, Brentano, Shanghai, American and Concord Quartets.