Amyr Joyner

Violinist

Asbury Methodist Villlage

Partnership with National Philharmonic Orchestra

Violinist Amyr Joyner has performed across the country and internationally as a fervent solo, orchestral, and chamber performer. He has had an extensive performing career spanning nearly 25 years which includes appearing in many major concert halls and venues across the country. His most recent engagements as a member of the Griot String Quartet include the tour ‘Our Song, Our Story’ with prominent composer, producer, conductor and pianist Damien Sneed, as well as appearances in the 2019 Capitol Fourth Concert in Washington D.C., the Hollywood Bowl’s 2022 “Juneteenth: A Global Celebration of Freedom” historic event, the 2021 March on Washington Film Festival, and the 2022 Gateways Music Festival performance at Carnegie Hall, in which the orchestra made history as the first all-Black orchestra to perform at the venue. Other venues and events he has performed at include Millennium Stage and the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center, the Grant Park Music Festival’s 2013 Advocate for the Arts Awards Benefit, the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse, Symphony Hall in Jacksonville, Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, Harris Hall in Chicago, the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, and the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen.

In addition to his performance career, Joyner has also been a violin instructor for several music institutes, serving on the faculties at the Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore, the International School of Music in Bethesda, Maryland, and the Kirov Ballet Academy in Washington D.C. He has also served as a violin teaching artist for the Atlanta Music Project, an El-Sistema based program in Southwest Atlanta, and for the Richardson School of Music in Takoma Park, Maryland. He currently performs in the National Philharmonic Orchestra at the Strathmore Music Center in Rockville MD, is a musician-in-residence with the Iris Music Project, and serves as an instructor at Howard University in Washington, D.C.