Flute soloist and chamber musician Amanda Dame is known for her vast breadth of repertoire and thematic programming. She has presented solo recitals at notable venues including Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, NY, the Anderson House and the Arts Club of Washington in DC, and The Mainstay in Rock Hall, MD. Amanda has been a featured performer in the Friday Noon Series at the Peabody Institute, and the Danenburg Honors Recital at Oberlin Conservatory. Amanda has taught flute privately for the past seven years, and is a founding member of the Virtual Woodwind Academy (virtualwoodwinds.com). She also serves as a Special Educator at the Sheppard Pratt School in Baltimore, MD. Through the Virtual Woodwind Academy, she has presented a multitude of virtual masterclasses including the "Play like a Pro" series, and in February 2020 was a guest masterclass clinician at Northern Kentucky University. In the past, Amanda has taught at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Orchkids program, the Oberlin Flute Academy, and the Camp Encore/Coda in Sweden, ME. Amanda has been a laureate in many competitions, receiving first place awards in the National Society of Arts and Letters Woodwind Competition in Washington, DC, the Best Mozart Performance category of the global Great Composer Competition Series, 2014 Central Ohio Flute Association Young Artist Competition, the 2013 Rochester Flute Association Emerging Artist Competition, the 2012 Stephan Scholarship Competition, and the Tommy Ippolito Scholarship. Amanda received her Master of Music in flute performance from the Peabody Institute of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, and her Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Biology from Oberlin College and Conservatory. She has studied with Marina Piccinini, Alexa Still, and Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart.