Amanda Pepping enjoys her multi-faceted career as a performer, arranger, educator, and co-editor of the International Trumpet Guild News section.  She has given recitals and solo appearances throughout the United States, Europe, and most recently Thailand.  She has performed with groups including the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, , Bent Frequency, the New Trinity Baroque Orchestra, the Houston Bach Society, the Arizona Opera, and the Brass Band of Battle Creek, Michigan. She has been a featured soloist with various European ensembles, including the Hombeek Brass Band in Belgium, as well as groups here in the United States, including the Salt River Brass Band, UGA Wind Ensemble, and ASU Marimba Ensemble. She is the assistant professor of music at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Before moving to Georgia, 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.  Several of her arrangments can be heard on her first solo album, Amanda, which is available through Summit Records. Amanda is a Sonaré artist.