Amy Goto

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Cellist Amy Goto, born in 2004 in South Carolina, is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music under the guidance of Paul Watkins. In 2024, she received her bachelor’s degree with honors from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, completing the institution’s three-year degree program in one year.

Most recently, Amy was named winner of the Yale School of Music’s 2026 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition. She received the AENA Special Prize (Second Prize) at the 2022 Pablo Casals International Award and the Prize for Best Performance of the Commissioned Work at the 2025 Dr. Luis Sigall International Competition. From 2020 to 2022, she was the youngest member of Gautier Capuçon’s Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

As a soloist at the 2022 Verbier Festival Academy, Amy took part in masterclasses with Frans Helmerson, Miklós Perényi, Alban Gerhardt, Augustin Dumay, Mihaela Martin, and Gábor Takács-Nagy.

Amy has performed at venues and festivals including the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Pau Casals International Music Festival of El Vendrell, Schloss Elmau, Music@Menlo, Domaine Forget, Festival de Musique de Wissembourg, and TEDx at the University of Rhode Island. Her performances have been broadcast on NPR’s From the Top, Radio Classique, and medici.tv.

Amy performs on a cello made by Ferdinando Alberti in Milan, circa 1750, generously loaned by Christophe Landon.

She is proudly endorsed by Thomastik-Infeld Vienna.