Amy Selig

Instructor

Amy Selig is excited to work with Hartwick College as Private Cello Teacher, having been thrilled with the music department and its supportive environment, as well as the music education students she has worked with studying cello there.

While Amy grew up playing the violin, it was Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C-Major that she fell in love with in high school, and which was specifically what made her switch her major from biochemistry, and decide to pursue and complete a B.A. in Music at SUNY Stony Brook. An unusually versatile musician, Amy has been teaching and performing on violin, viola, and cello ever since. She regularly performs on cello as an orchestral, chamber, and solo musician.

She has performed all over the northeast, including Lincoln Center, as well as more remote locations across the globe. She has shared the stage with such luminaries as Gil Shaham, Judy Collins, Marie Osmond, and many others.

Amy has also recorded on and written arrangements for cello, viola, and violin with rock artists such as Greg Jacquin, and Jon Peckman.

She was the featured cello soloist in the premier of Ander Mikalsen’s performance piece, Scores for the Stars, Part II at the Aldrich Museum, a work also involving much arranging and improvising, call and response, and engaging with sculptures.

Amy is also Assistant Principal Violist with the Ridgefield Symphony, and the Fenimore Chamber Orchestra, as well as performing on cello and violin with many other professional orchestras. She has performed as cellist with the Trio Cellobration, and Duo Violanello.

Amy has Suzuki Teacher Training on violin and cello, and has taught cello group Suzuki classes. She has taken lessons with John Dexter and Amit Peled. She was the director and coach of the Montessori Chamber Ensemble for many years, as well as having served as coach for other youth ensembles. She has worked with youth in college and conservatory settings on cello and viola, such as Hoff-Barthelson Conservatory, and Purchase College. Amy teaches for KEYS (Kids Empowered by Your Support), the Lower Delaware Youth Ensemble, and also maintains her private studio. She applies a unique blend of creativity, attention to the individual student of music as a whole being, attention to technical and musical detail, and heart in her teaching. Her students have consistently won top honors and many have gone on to successful careers in music.

When Amy isn’t performing or teaching, she can be found hiking in the Catskill mountains she loves, studying science and history, and working on her visual art.