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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 and Europe.  She has performed with groups including the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado, as the principal trumpet, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, 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 many ensembles here in the United States, including the Salt River Brass Band, UGA Wind Ensemble, and ASU Marimba Ensemble.  In Phoenix, 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.  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.  She completed her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in music performance at Arizona State University where she studied with and served as a teaching assistant to Regents Professor David Hickman.  She had the honor of presenting a solo recital at the 2006 International Trumpet Guild Convention in New Jersey, where she performed works from her first solo album, Amanda, which is available through Summit Records. Amanda is currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of Texas in Austin, studying with Ray Sasaki. Amanda is a Sonare artist.