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brought up in Florida near Orlando. She started playing the violin in the 5th grade, and
had great string programs during junior and senior high school. She has a Bachelor degree
in Music Education and performance, and a Masters in Music Education and Performance.
Amanda attended the Spoleto Festival in Spoleto, Italy, a festival in Graz, Austria, and
has taught in the public schools in Cork, Ireland, and in Pinellas County, Florida.
From 1981-2000, Amanda played in the Florida Orchestra, under the baton of Skitch Henderson, Bobby McFerrin, Aaron Copland, and Joseph Silverstein. She has performed with Roberta Flack, Johnny Mathis, Carol Channing, the Smothers brothers, and many others. Amanda is included on VH1 behind the music, in a feature about Marti Balin, and can be seen playing next to Marti during a concert sequence. Amanda has performed solo with Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Bobby McFerrin, and Marti Balin (founder of Jefferson Airplane), along with local groups - The Women’s Blues Review, and Full Moon rodeo. In 2000, Amanda resigned from the Florida Orchestra after 19 years. She started this new business and it has prospered. TRAVEL Amanda's primary interests - other than music - are traveling, scuba diving, and photography. In 1985, she backpacked throughout Europe, from England, Ireland, south of France, on up to Finland. During a trip to Greece, Egypt, and Israel, she dove in the Red Sea, rode a camel near the pyramids, and took the ferry to many Greek islands. During 1990, she lived on a sailboat, traveling to Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. Later she traveled though out Australia, from the Great Barrier Reef, to Sydney and Tasmania. Then it was off to live in Auckland, New Zealand for 6 months, performing in the Auckland Symphony, and seeing the north and south island. In 1997, she spent several weeks in Papua New Guinea, traveling from the highlands to see the "sing-sing show", to the river where she collected lots of interesting carved artifacts, and then to the sea, where she scuba dove one of the best spots in the world. In 1999, she took a 2-week safari throughout Kenya and Tanzania, and dove off the Seychelles, an island off of Kenya. In
2000, Amanda went on a tour of France, China, and diving in Kona, Hawaii. In
2002, Amanda traveled to the island of Rarotonga, an island in the Cook
Island's, in the south Pacific. She went scuba diving and experienced a
south Pacific culture. In the summer of 2005, Amanda traveled to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. In the summer of 2006, Amanda traveled to the Cayman Islands for scuba diving and a trip to Peru. In 2007, Amanda traveled to Thailand, diving in the Solomon Islands in the south Pacific near Fiji, Copper Canyon in Mexico and played the Fiddlestix Fiddle Fest in California. In 2008, Amanda had a great adventure tour to Costa Rica for a week. Contact
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