Name: Organ Concert by Emily Amos
Start: 2024-09-29T16:00:00-04:00
Location: St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jacksonville, FL

We have a young artist, Emily Amos, coming to perform an organ concert on 𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝑺𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 29, 4𝒑𝒎 𝒂𝒕 𝑺𝒕. 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌'𝒔 𝑳𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒉, 3976 𝑯𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝑨𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒆, 𝑱𝒂𝒙 32207.
Please join us and invite your guests! We are hoping to expose some young music students to the virtuosity of the organ.
Q & A with students and reception with light refreshments to follow the performance.
4:00PM - 5:30PM Organ Concert
5:30PM - 6:15PM Q & A and Reception
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐦𝐨𝐬
Emily Dawn Amos is a young organist whose passion for music has taken her across the nation and beyond. She started studying organ at the age of eight, and at nine years old was the youngest ever admitted into a Pipe Organ Encounter (POE). Since then, she has attended a total of twenty summer intensives in the States, including the Curtis/Wanamaker Organ Institute, the Oberlin Organ Academy, the Eastman Summer Organ Academy, the Baylor Organ Summer Institute, the Jacobs School of Music Organ Academy, as well as intensives in France at the Academie Oloron-St. Marie and the Academie de Poitiers. A passionate advocate for other young artists in the field, she has used her experiences at the national level as the American Guild of Organists (AGO) Councillor for Young Organists for the past two years.
Emily is currently an organ scholar at St. Paul’s United Methodist in Houston, Texas. Previous positions include organ scholar at both Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, Pennsylvania and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, as well as assistant organist at St. Rita Catholic Church in Alexandria, Louisiana and at St. Francis Catholic Church in Traverse City, Michigan.
She has participated in masterclasses with professors such as James David Christie, Daniel Roth, Isabelle Demers, Johann Vexo, and many others. In her travels, Emily has had the opportunity to perform on organs such as Longwood Gardens, Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, Cathedrale St. Pierre in Poitiers, and many others. She is also an assistant organist at the Wanamaker Grand Court at Macy’s.
Emily participated in and won the 2015 and 2016 Young Artists Competition on NPR (Red River Radio). She also won third place, audience prize, and the hymn prize at the 2018 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival and second place at the AGO Quimby Regional Competition (Grand Rapids Chapter). Emily studied with Scott Dettra as her primary organ teacher from 2015-2017 and attended the Interlochen Arts Academy from 2017-2019. She has recently finished her Bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she studied with Alan Morrison and graduated with both the Joan Hutton Landis award for excellence in academics and the Edward Aldwell award for excellence in musical studies. Emily is pursuing her Master’s degree at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice, studying with Ken Cowan.
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