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Amanda Pepping
enjoys her multi-faceted career as a performer, arranger, and educator. She has given recitals and solo appearances throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. She has been a featured soloist with various ensembles. She has performed with groups including the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, the Houston Bach Society, the Arizona Opera, and the Brass Band of Battle Creek, Michigan. In Texas, Amanda taught Texas State University in San Marco and Texas Lutheran University in Seguin. In Arizona, Amanda was an adjunct professor at Mesa Community College and Phoenix College.
Amanda was a 2005-2006 Fulbright Fellow in Karlsruhe, Germany, studying the Baroque trumpet with world-renowned trumpet soloist, historian, and teacher Dr. Edward Tarr. Amanda received her doctorate from the University of Texas in Austin where she studied with Ray Sasaki and served as a teaching assistant to musicologist Dr. Lorenzo Candelaria. She holds her master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Arizona State University where she studied with and was a teaching assistant to David Hickman, whose book Trumpet Pedagogy, which she edited, has sold over 4500 copies. She has also studied with German trumpet soloist Reinhold Friedrich, Emory Harvison of the Phoenix Symphony, and Robert Dorer and Douglas Carlsen of the Minnesota Orchestra. Amanda just finished her first year as Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Georgia State University. Several of her arrangments can be heard on her first solo album, Amanda, which is available through Summit Records. She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Trumpet Guild and is the Editor of the ITG Journal News Column. Amanda is a Sonaré performing artist.