New Date!
Emily Amos Concert, previously scheduled for September, now has a new date! Please join us on Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 4:00PM at St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Emily will be performing select works Bach, and Vierne, Elgar and Dukas.
ABOUT EMILY AMOS
Emily Dawn Amos is a young organist whose passion for music has taken her across the nation and beyond. She started studying organ at the age of eight, and at nine years old was the youngest ever admitted into a Pipe Organ Encounter (POE). Since then, she has attended a total of twenty summer intensives in the States, including the Curtis/Wanamaker Organ Institute, the Oberlin Organ Academy, the Eastman Summer Organ Academy, the Baylor Organ Summer Institute, the Jacobs School of Music Organ Academy, as well as intensives in France at the Academie Oloron-St. Marie and the Academie de Poitiers. A passionate advocate for other young artists in the field, she has used her experiences at the national level as the American Guild of Organists (AGO) Councillor for Young Organists for the past two years.
Emily is currently organ scholar at St. Paul’s United Methodist in Houston, Texas. Previous positions include organ scholar at both Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, Pennsylvania and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, as well as assistant organist at St. Rita Catholic Church in Alexandria, Louisiana and at St. Francis Catholic Church in Traverse City, Michigan.
She has participated in masterclasses with professors such as James David Christie, Daniel Roth, Isabelle Demers, Johann Vexo, and many others. In her travels, Emily has had the opportunity to perform on organs such as Longwood Gardens, Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, Cathedrale St. Pierre in Poitiers, and many others. She is also an assistant organist at the Wanamaker Grand Court at Macy’s.
Emily participated in and won the 2015 and 2016 Young Artists Competition on NPR (Red River Radio). She also won third place, audience prize, and the hymn prize at the 2018 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival and second place at the AGO Quimby Regional Competition (Grand Rapids Chapter). Emily studied with Scott Dettra as her primary organ teacher from 2015-2017 and attended the Interlochen Arts Academy from 2017-2019. She has recently finished her Bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she studied with Alan Morrison and graduated with both the Joan Hutton Landis award for excellence in academics and the Edward Aldwell award for excellence in musical studies. Emily is pursuing her Master’s degree at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice, studying with Ken Cowan.
More Details to Come!
The Executive Committee is planning a very special Members Recital at Hendricks Avenue Baptist featuring Jane Daugherty, Peter DeWitt, and Tom Rodgers.
Save the Date!
Mark Sedio is an active recitalist, clinician, conductor and composer, having presented hymn festivals and workshops throughout North America and Europe. We are thrilled to welcome Mark to Jacksonville!
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