Amy K. Cherry earned her B.M. degree from the University of Illinois and her M.M. for the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Ms. Cherry has served as Visiting Professor of Trumpet at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky where she taught undergraduate and graduate students, led the Trumpet Ensemble and conducted the Brass Choir. She has also held teaching positions at Wright State University and East Tennessee State University. During 1999, Amy served as Associate Principal Trumpet of the Hofer Symphoniker in Hof, Germany for a six-week appointment. She has been principal trumpet of the Kingsport Symphony and Johnson City Symphony Orchestras and played with numerous other groups including the Cincinnati Opera, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dayton Opera, the Lexington Philharmonic and the Summit Brass. She is currently the Principal Trumpet with the Brevard Chamber Orchestra and a freelance musician in the western North Carolina area. Her trumpet instructors include Marie Speziale, Alan Siebert and Ray Sasaki.
As
an administrator Amy has worked with the Association for the Advancement
of Arts Education, an organization in Cincinnati dedicated to linking local
arts groups with K-12 teachers to provide enriching arts experiences for
students. She has also served as Assistant to the Director of the Rafael
Mendez Brass Institute. For the past four years Amy has been on the judging
panels of the National Trumpet Competition in Fairfax, Virginia. Currently,
she is serving as the Executive Director of the International Women’s Brass
Conference.