Agnès Maurer is a native of France, where she studied the violin privately, and at the age of sixteen, she joined the Ensemble Instrumental Andrée Colson, a professional chamber orchestra.
In 1976, she came to the United States and studied viola with Karen Tuttle at the Peabody Conservatory, with Kim Kashkashian at the New School of Music and with Geoffrey Michaels in Radnor, PA.
She teaches violin and viola at her home studio “the Woodhaven String Academy”,. She coaches chamber music in the summer at the Lyndon State College in Vermont, and directs two summer camps (“Bear Crossing Music Camps”) at her studio. She is an active chamber musician herself. She is a member of the Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, of which she is the founder and executive director. The Ensemble has created the only chamber music series in the Schuylkill County, at the Penn State Schuylkill Campus, and has toured in Maryland, New Jersey, Atlanta Georgia and Vermont.
Mrs. Maurer freelances in most of Eastern Pennsylvania, and has toured worldwide on numerous occasions, including a tour with the New-York City National Opera Company. She is Principal Violist with the Schuylkill Symphony Orchestra, with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, and with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. She is also a member of Celtic Sunrise Trio.
Her solo appearances have included performances of Stamitz, Handel-Casadesus, and Telemann Viola Concerti, “Harold in Italy” by Berlioz, and Mozart Symphonie Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra.