Almita Vamos is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied with Mischa Mischakoff and Louis Persinger. She was a member of the Lydian Trio and the Antioch Quartet, and has recorded under Coronet and Rizzoli labels. She has concertized throughout the United States, Taiwan, Korea, Greece, Australia, and Iceland. She won the Concert Artist Guild award and many other prizes. She continues to perform as soloist and chamber musician in this country and abroad.
Mrs. Vamos's students have won top prizes in many national and international competitions including Gold Prizes in the Tchaikowsky Youth Competition, Carl Flesch, Menuhin, Bach (Leipzig), and Silver Prizes in Tchaikowsky, Szigeti, Kreisler, Neilsen, and Bronze Prizes in Paganini and Montreal Competitions. This past year her students have won Grand Prizes in WAMSO, Blount, and First and Second Prizes in the Fischoff Competition and three of her former students have attained positions in the New York Philharmonic. Her students are members of the Boston, St. Louis, San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Washington, Minnesota, Chautauqua, Hong Kong, Oslo Philharmonic, and many other symphony orchestras around the world.
Almita Vamos has won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching five times, the ASTA Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award and has been featured on "Sunday Morning" CBS.
Mrs. Vamos has taught at many summer festivals including Meadowmount, Bowdoin, Chautauqua, Schlern International Music Festival, Niagara International Music Festival, Amati Festival, and is co-founder of the Weathersfield Music Festival. She was professor at Western Illinois University, University of Minnesota, Oberlin Conservatory, and is presently a distinguished professor at Northwestern University.
