Jaime Amador

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jaime Amador began his studies in the String Program for Children at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music as a student of Francisco Figueroa and Guillermo Figueroa. He was accepted to The Juilliard School, where he worked under Toby Appel. Mr. Amador later continued his studies at the Manhattan School of Music, during which time he participated in the International Videoconference with renowned violist Pinchas Zukerman. He has participated in several other master classes with Roberto Díaz, Michael Tree, Helen Callus, Paul Neubauer, Pamela Frank, Sylvia Rosenberg, and Hartmut Rohde, to name a few.

As a chamber musician, Mr. Amador has collaborated with such notable musicians as Emanuel Borok, Mikhael Kopelman, David Geber, Michael Lewin, Emilio Colon, Vanessa Perez, Mykola Suk and Eric Himy, among others. He was principal viola of the New England Ensemble, Camerata New York, and the New Bach Players, having played in prestigious venues in New York, such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, as well as several concert halls across Europe.

Mr. Amador has participated in important international music festivals including the Meadowmount School of Music (where he was teaching assistant to Eugene Becker), Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Santander, the Academy of Music in New Jersey, the Norfolk Music Festival in Connecticut, and, most recently, the Carl Flesch Akademie in Baden-Baden, Germany.

Mr. Amador is a former member of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, where he was the winner of its Soloist Competition, awarded in 2007. On this occasion, the newspaper El Nuevo Día reviewed his interpretation of Béla Bártok’s concerto for viola and orchestra as “outstanding, having displayed sound technical mastery and a sobriety most appropriate to the nature of the piece. From the moment the viola alone is introduced, this young musician exuded confidence and aplomb, which was mirrored in the precision of his execution throughout the entire performance.”