Amy Cimini is a violist and musicologist based between New York City and Philadelphia. She is a founding member of the chamber music collective Till by Turning, whose recording of Jessica Pavone’s Quotidian is out on Peacock Records, and the improvising duo Architeuthis Walks on Land, whose second record came out on Carrier Records in spring 2010.

Also as a performer of new music, Amy collaborated in the world premiere of James Dillon’s The Soadie Waste, and has premiered works at the Midwest Composers Symposium, SEAMUS and Sonic Directions Festivals. Her recent recording (Quiet Design, 2008) of Alex Ness’ Shruti, For Solo Viola has been called “daring, sensitive and confident.”

An integral member of two touring bands--Starring and the Fancy--Amy has also lent a melodic and drone-y hand to a number of other Brooklyn rock and pop outfits, including !!!, I’m in You, and Christy & Emily.

She recently completed her PhD at New York University with a dissertation on the impact of Baruch Spinoza’s philosophy on contemporary musical thought, and she now is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.