Emily Amos

Organ Concert - April 29, 2023, 7:00 PM

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, including the Curtis/Wanamaker Organ Institute, the Oberlin Organ Academy, the Eastman Summer Organ Academy, the Baylor Organ Summer Institute, and the Jacobs School of Music Organ Academy.

Emily currently works at Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, PA. Previous positions include assistant organist at both St. Rita Catholic Church in Alexandria, Louisiana and at St. Francis Catholic Church in Traverse City, Michigan, and organ scholar at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. She has participated in masterclasses with professors such as James David Christie, Daniel Roth, Alan Morrison, and Johann Vexo. In her travels, Emily has had the opportunity to play organs such as Longwood Gardens, St. Bartholomew’s and St. Patrick’s in New York, King’s Chapel in Boston, Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, and is 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 Mr. Scott Dettra as her primary organ teacher from 2015-2017, attended the Interlochen Arts Academy from 2017-2019, and is currently attending the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she studies with Alan Morrison. At Curtis, Emily holds the Stephanie Yen-Mun Liem Azar Fellowship.