Amanda Pepping

Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, announces the appointment of Amanda Pepping to the position of Assistant Professor of Music beginning in the fall 2010 semester. Her duties include teaching applied trumpet and coaching chamber music. Most recently, Dr. Pepping taught at Texas State University in San Marco and Texas Lutheran University in Seguin. In Arizona, she was an adjunct professor at Mesa Community College and Phoenix College.

In addition to her teaching career, Dr. Pepping has an active career performing solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire. She has given recitals and made solo appearances throughout the US and Europe. She has performed with groups such as the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, Houston Bach Society, Arizona Opera, and the Brass Band of Battle Creek, MI.

Dr. Pepping was a 2005-2006 Fulbright Fellow in Karlsruhe, Germany, studying the Baroque trumpet with Dr. Edward Tarr. She 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. Several of Dr. Pepping's arrangements can be heard on her first solo album, Amanda, which is available through Summit Records. She is a Sonaré artist.

Links:

Georgia State University School of Music: http://www.music.gsu.edu/

Amanda Pepping's website: http://www.amandapepping.com

Source: Dr. Chester Phillips, Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Georgia State University