Amanda Harberg is a composer whose works have been performed by numerous ensembles, including the Bay Atlantic Symphony, the National Symphony of Ecuador, the Thuringer Symphoniker, the American Modern Ensemble, the Olympia Philharmonic Society, the New Jersey Youth Symphony, the Pasadena Young Musicians Orchestra, the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, the FAUST Youth Symphony, the Harmonium Choral Society, and the New York Licorice Ensemble. Her music for flute and piano has been presented at two National Flute Conventions, and her new Sonata for Clarinet and Piano was presented at the International Clarinet Assocation’s ClarinetFest 2016. Harberg’s awards include the 2014 New Jersey State Council On the Arts Fellowship Award, a Fulbright/Hays Fellowship, two Meet the Composer Creative Connections grants, the New York Youth Symphony’s First Music Award, the Juilliard School’s Peter Menin Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy's Outstanding Young Alumna Award, and grants from foundations including the Mellon Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, a Live Music for Dance grant, and the New York State Music Teachers Association.
Amanda Harberg
Studios
Irving Fine
Amanda Harberg worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…