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Amaryn OlmedaviolinPhoto: Marco Borggreve
Photo by Marco Borggreve
Amaryn OlmedaviolinPhoto: Marco Borggreve
Photo by Marco Borggreve
Amaryn OlmedaviolinPhoto: Marco Borggreve
Photo by Marco Borggreve
Amaryn OlmedaviolinPhoto: Marco Borggreve
Photo by Marco Borggreve
Amaryn OlmedaviolinPhoto: Marco Borggreve
Photo by Marco Borggreve
Amaryn OlmedaviolinPhoto: Marco Borggreve
Photo by Marco Borggreve
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Between Worlds – Carlos Simon
Folsom Lake Symphony – Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Janacek Violin Sonata

“Olmeda is an accomplished young soloist who I definitely look forward to hearing again: her commanding stage presence, infallible technique, and interpretive ability already rival that of international concert stage veterans…The tremendous audience response suggested that Olmeda is more than destined for a long and fruitful career.”

Violinist.com

“Given the Violin Concerto’s extravagant flash and flair, as well as soaring, yearning lyricism, you might wonder why it’s rarely performed. Well, it calls for a first-class violinist, and the orchestra is challenged to coordinate all sorts of tricky rhythms and textures. On Thursday it had a soloist of jaw-dropping virtuosity, but also suave musicianship, in Amaryn Olmeda..she dispatched the most fearsome leaps, scurries and double stops as if no trouble at all…”

Dallas Morning News

“Olmeda maintained a clear, singing violin tone that balanced the orchestra perfectly as she negotiated the alternately brilliant and devilish virtuoso passages peppered with multiple stops, and the more lyrical interludes, many containing exotic themes resembling those from Rózsa’s epic film scores.”

Texas Classical Review

“The violinist Amaryn Olmeda is nimble-fingered through the fiddling virtuosity of Carlos Simon’s solo “Between Worlds.”

The New York Times

“The result was a three minute work for solo violin, played with dazzling pyrotechnics by Amaryn Olmeda using every violin trick in the book. Wonderful, wonderful!!”

Concertonet.com

“Go and find a video of Amaryn Olmeda of Loomis [CA] playing the violin on YouTube, and you will not be surprised that she has won so many competitions with her music. You might be surprised that it was in the junior division.”

Sacramento Bee

“Prodigy is a big word to throw around. But in the case of our next guest, there may be no better description.”

90.9 KXJZ Capital Public Radio

Winner of first prize and the audience choice award at the 24th Annual Sphinx Competition, American violinist Amaryn Olmeda is a rising star sought after for her bold and expressive performances as a soloist and collaborator. Violinist.com says of Olmeda, “…her commanding stage presence, infallible technique, and interpretive ability already rival that of international concert stage veterans.”

Highlights of the 2025-2026 season include debut performances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Tallahassee Symphony, Modesto Symphony, Williamsburg Symphony, and Shreveport Symphony, as well as return appearances with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Des Moines Symphony, Stockton Symphony, and Auburn Symphony. Olmeda will also debut in recital at the Celebrity Series of Boston.

Olmeda made her Lincoln Center solo debut on the 2024 Summer for the City Series. Later that season, she returned for her solo debut at David Geffen Hall on the New York Philharmonic’s Kravis Nightcap Series with violinist Hilary Hahn and principal ballet dancer Tiler Peck. She made her Carnegie Hall solo debut on the Sphinx Virtuosi tour at the age of 14, garnering rave reviews.

Recent highlights include debuts with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Omaha Symphony, and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra at their New Year’s Concert Series, earning her a nomination for the San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards. In In 2023, she recorded Carlos Simon’s Between Worlds on Deutsche Grammophon, praised by The Strad as “an impressive reading by the young musician”. In 2022, Olmeda performed for the San Francisco Conservatory Gala with Yuja Wang. At 13, Olmeda became the first member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Opus 3 Artist’s Artist Apprentice Program.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 2008, Amaryn Olmeda studies at the New England Conservatory of Music with Miriam Fried. She previously studied with Ian Swensen at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Olmeda performs on a violin made by J.B. Vuillaume in 1864.

OCTOBER 2025