Amanda McCullough is a composer and trumpet player from Lincoln, Nebraska. Originally from Topeka, Kansas, she studied trumpet at Washburn University, graduating Summa Cum Laude with Music Department honors in 2011, earning a BM in trumpet performance, a BA in music, and a minor in mathematics. After her graduation from Washburn, she relocated to Lincoln, where she studied composition at the University of Nebraska under Dr. Eric Richards, earning a Masters of Music in Composition in 2013.
In Topeka, she was a performer with various Mariachi groups, including Mariachi Las Palomas and Mariachi Girasol. In the Lincoln/Omaha area, she has played trumpet in Omaha Symphonic Winds, Capitol Jazz Society Big Band, a 2015 production of Sweeney Todd, UNL Wind Ensemble, UNL Symphony Orchestra, UNL Big Band, the UNL Contemporary Music Ensemble and the UNL graduate brass quintet.
Amanda has premiered several pieces for brass quintet, trumpet ensemble, and wind ensemble, including a symphony for Wind Ensemble in 2013 and a piece for chamber Wind Ensemble in 2015 (premiered by Omaha Symphonic Winds). In 2014, her electronic composition “Melting Clocks” was premiered at the 14th Annual Electronic Music Midwest Conference in Chicago, and in February of 2015, her solo vocal work “The Clock Strikes One that Just Struck Two” based off of the poem by Emily Dickinson, made its debut at the Fifteen Minutes of Fame performance by baritone Andrew White in New York City. She is currently attending University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition under Dr. Tyler White.
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