OCU’s Wanda Bass School of Music welcomed Amanda Harberg for a guest artist residency on March 24- 27.
Dr. Amanda Harberg is a composer, pianist, and flutist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harberg has her bachelors and masters of music composition from Juilliard. In 2019, Amanda continued on her education journey to get her Ph.D. at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Jersey, where she now teaches music composition classes.
Amanda Harberg started her teaching career through Juilliard’s Morse Fellowship program. This fellowship program sends Juilliard students to teach classes in New York City public schools, giving Amanda her first taste of the music education field. Post-grad, Amanda worked with students as a faculty member with Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program–an intense music program for students from backgrounds that are heavily under-represented in classical music.
Amanda has written an extensive number of compositions, receiving numerous accolades for her work. Harberg’s work has been awarded a Fulbright Hays fellowship, Juilliard’s Peter Menin prize, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, a New York State Council on the Arts Grant, among others. In addition to the accolades, her compositions have been presented at notable music institutions, such as the Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center.
On March 25, Amanda hosted a flute concert at the Bass Music Center, featuring OCU community performers showcasing her chamber compositions. The compositions performed have been awarded four Newly Published Music Awards from the National Flute Association. Amanda also spoke to various classes and groups during her residency, including “Project 21: Music for the Twenty First Century” students and the Oklahoma City University Flute Studio.
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