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Amy Wilson is a promising young conductor
who has conducted orchestras throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe. Currently, she is Conductor
of the Mercer / Macon Symphony Youth Orchestra, Apprentice Conductor of the Macon Symphony Orchestra, and a Graduate
Teaching Assistant for the Mercer University Orchestra. At Mercer University she is pursuing her second
Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting.
Teachers who have instructed Ms. Wilson include such distinguished
conductors as Adrian Gnam, Music Director of the Macon Symphony Orchestra and Former Principal Oboe of the
Cleveland Orchestra; Gustav Meier, world-renowned Conducting Faculty at the Peabody Institute, Former Director
of Orchestras at the University of Michigan, and Former Conducting Faculty at the famous Tanglewood Music Festival;
Jesús López-Cobos, Former Music Director for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Anshel Brusilow, Former
Concertmaster for the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy and Former Music Director for the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra; and Wayne Wyman, Artistic Director at Capital Opera Raleigh and Former Artistic Director at Lyric
Opera San Antonio. In workshops she has worked with such world famous maestros as Marin Alsop, Gunther
Schuller, Larry Rachleff, Christopher Wilkins, Kenneth Kiesler, Carl St. Clair, Daniel Lewis, and Leonid Korchmar.
Ms. Wilson made her United
States professional orchestra debut by guest conducting the Macon Symphony Orchestra in Macon, Georgia.
She won this exciting opportunity as the grand winner in the competition portion of the International Academy of Advanced
Conducting, a conducting workshop held at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, in the summer of 2005. These
world class teachers, who were experts in the technique of Ilya Musin, included Adrian Gnam and Leonid Korchmar, who teaches
at the renowned St. Petersburg Conservatory and conducts at the Kirov in Russia.
Ms. Wilson began her musical training early in the Tampa area of Florida where she grew up. Formal
study in conducting began at the University of South Florida, and continued while studying at the prestigious University of
Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet performance.
After graduation she moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she worked at the Peabody Institute, studied conducting privately,
and worked with several ensembles as a conductor in Maryland and Pennsylvania. These opportunities included
being the assistant conductor to Victoria Bond at the Harrisburg Opera and guest conducting the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra
in its inaugural season. Ms. Wilson pursued her first Master of Music degree at
the University of North Texas, where she conducted the University of North Texas Repertoire Orchestra, an orchestra comprised
of music majors. She also was the Associate Conductor of the Flower Mound Community Orchestras, where she
conducted the Progressive Orchestra, which was comprised of musicians of all ages.
Currently
Ms. Wilson resides in Macon, Georgia, where she studies, conducts, guest conducts, cover conducts, plays the clarinet, and
refines her conducting skills at workshops. Besides conducting, she has also studied clarinet performance,
composition, piano, operatic acting, stage direction, and opera coaching. Her career goals include conducting
professional orchestras and operas, as well as teaching conducting to upcoming generations.
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