Lauren Roth

Biography

Lauren Roth is the newly appointed Assistant Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony. Prior to this, she was Concertmaster of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and served on the faculty of the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor of Violin for eleven years. Ms. Roth appears regularly as a soloist, Guest Concertmaster, and Associate Concertmaster with orchestras around the world. Highlights include performing the Mendelssohn and Sibelius violin concertos in the Czech Republic, solo engagements with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and appearances with the Jacksonville Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, and Baltimore Symphony. She enjoys performing with the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, a gathering of concertmasters and principal players from around the country.

A dedicated teacher, Ms. Roth maintained a violin studio at the University of Arizona giving instruction in performance, pedagogy, and orchestral repertoire. She often spends summers as a faculty member of the Prague Summer Nights Festival, the Marrowstone Music Festival, and she has served on the faculties of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Camp and Carnegie Hall’s New York Orchestra Seminar program. Ms. Roth is Associate Concertmaster of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music each August. In the summer of 2021, she was a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra.

A native of Seattle, Ms. Roth received a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Italian Studies from the University of Washington. She was a student of Professor Ron Patterson. She went on to earn a Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of William Preucil, and Ms. Roth was accepted into his prestigious Concertmaster Academy.

Outside of music, Ms. Roth enjoys yoga, playing and watching sports, and spending time with her nieces and nephews.