Amy Selig

Amy Selig is a versatile musician, performing professionally and teaching on all three of her instruments- violin, viola, and cello! While she has a love for all three instruments, viola is her favorite. Amy began playing the violin in public school and also began composing music during that time. Although she began college with a biochemistry major, after three years she could not allow her intense and core love of music to take ‘second fiddle,’ and so, switched her major, graduating from SUNY Stony Brook with a B.A. in Music.

It wasn’t until she was in her 20’s that she first picked up a viola, and suddenly knew what she had been “missing” all of her life. It was then, that she knew she had a ‘voice’ that most matched the musician’s voice inside of her. Amy currently holds positions as Assistant Principal Violist with the Fenimore Chamber Orchestra, and the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra. She frequently serves as Assistant Principal or Principal Violist with many other orchestras. She performs as violinist, violist, and cellist in other orchestras and ensembles, as well as concert soloist and recitalist on all three instruments.

Amy teaches for Kids Empowered by Your Support (KEYS), for the Lower Delaware Youth Ensemble (LDYE) in Oneonta, and lends her teaching and performance skills to both Hartwick and Purchase Colleges, as well as maintaining her private home studio. Many of her students have won notable honors and gone on to careers in music.

Amy now resides in the stunning Catskill Mountains, and loves the views and all that nature has to offer. She is an avid walker, reads much history and science, and is a visual artist working with wood, clay, drawing and sewing. She is a living example that with love as the driving force behind any goal, all manner of dreams can come true.