Amanda directs all fundraising, marketing, and communications efforts at the Philadelphia Youth Choral Ensembles. Amanda’s experience includes four years at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she led the annual fund and the Friends of Music giving society as Assistant Director of Development. Amanda has served in fundraising and executive director roles for Choral Arts Philadelphia, the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, Burlington County Bar Association, and Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and has consulted for numerous music organizations in the area.
As a trained singer with a passion for choral music, Amanda has performed professionally with various ensembles including The Philadelphia Singers, Meridian Vocal Consort, West Jersey Chamber Music Society, and serves as the mezzo-soprano soloist at First Presbyterian Church in Moorestown. Internationally, Amanda has directed at the Moravian Church Music Conference in Antigua and as part of opera choruses at the Spoleto Festival (SC) for four seasons.
Amanda holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Westminster Choir College and a Certificate of Nonprofit Management from La Salle University’s Nonprofit Center.