Jason Amos

Jason Amos began his viola studies at age eleven through the public schools in his hometown of Southfield, MI. Jason serves on faculty at Project STEP, an intensive training program for minority string players in Boston, as well as the New England Conservatory's Summer Orchestra Institute. He is the violist in the Boston Public Quartet and was a resident musician at musiConnects, a non-profit which provides free instruments & comprehensive music education to underserved children in Boston, for nine years.

He received a Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music after undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan. Jason has won honors in several competitions including 4th place in the 2007 Sphinx Competition and 1st prize in the 2006 Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Bradlin Scholarship Competition. 

Jason has appeared as a soloist with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, is a member of the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, and formerly played with the Flint Symphony Orchestra, among others. His extensive international engagements have included acclaimed chamber music performances, a residency at The Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), and mentoring for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. In 2010, he completed the fellowship program at Community MusicWorks where he appeared regularly as guest violist with the Providence String Quartet.

Jason has had the honor of studying privately with Martha Strongin Katz, Yizhak Schotten, and Caroline Coade. He serves on the Advisory Committee for the Boston Arts Academy, Boston's only public high school for the visual and performing arts which offers formal arts training and college preparatory education.