Amanda Burton Winger received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from James Madison University. Her horn playing took her around the world to Monaco, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. She won the Masterworks Festival Concerto Competition and performed Gordon Jacob's Horn Concerto with the Masterworks Festival Orchestra. She also performed with the Christian Performing Arts Fellowship at the Kennedy Center and was a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national honorary band fraternity.
After graduating from college, Amanda was the band director at Colonial Heights High School, her alma mater. She led the award winning Colonials to success, but decided to further her education. She attended Virginia Commonwealth University and received her Master of Music in Horn Performance. At VCU she was the Pep Band Director and was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda, the music honor society. It was at this time that she began working part time in the Conductors Guild office. She then moved to Williamsburg, Virginia to perform in the “Holiday in Roma” show at Busch Gardens. After two seasons of this, Amanda returned to Richmond where she is now an active freelance musician and the executive director of the Conductors Guild. She serves as personnel manager for the Richmond Brass Consort and recently performed as soloist for the premiere of Emory Waters' Horn Concerto with the Richmond Symphonic Winds.
