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Home / About / Officers / Vice President Amanda Swain

Vice President Amanda Swain

Amanda Swain is Vice President of the Regional Orchestra Players’ Association (ROPA). She previously served ROPA as Delegate (2015-2018) and Member-at-Large on the Executive Board (2017-2018). She is a proud member of Houston Professional Musicians’ Association, Local 65-699.

Amanda is from Friendswood, Texas. In 2012, she became the Principal Bassoonist of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Second Bassoonist of the Houston Ballet Orchestra. She received her BM at the University of Texas at Austin where she studied with Kristin Wolfe Jensen and her MM at Northwestern University where she studied with Christopher Millard. She was the Second Place winner in the 2012 Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox Bassoon Competition. She was a founding member of the Chicago-based contemporary ensemble The City of Tomorrow, who won the Gold Medal in the Senior Wind Division of the Fischoff Competition in 2011. Other accomplishments include winning First Prize in the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition (2010), being a semi-finalist in the Heida Hermanns International Woodwind Competition (2007), and being selected as an alternate for the Gillet-Fox International Competition for Bassoon (2010). She has been a guest artist, teacher, and speaker at universities and conferences throughout the United States.

 

Officers

  • President John Michael Smith
  • Vice President Amanda Swain
  • Secretary Karen Sandene
  • Treasurer Sean Diller
  • Casey Bozell
  • Lisa Davis
  • Christian Green
  • Kendra Hawley
  • Beverly Setzer
  • Katie Shields
  • Cory Tiffin
  • Steve Wade
  • Naomi Bensdorf Frisch

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