About
Hailed
for her "rich sonority" by the Portland Press Herald,
cellist Amy Gillingham has performed throughout the eastern
United States, Canada, Latin America, and Italy. She is an active solo,
chamber, and orchestral cellist whose broadcasts have been heard on radio
stations across Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts, and New York. Currently, Dr.
Gillingham is Instructor of Fine Arts at Indiana Wesleyan University,
Instructor of Cello at Cincinnati Music Academy, and Coordinator of Outreach
and Education at the Northern Kentucky University Music Preparatory Department,
where she also serves as Director of the Solisti Players and Instructor of
Cello. She has also held the appointment of Instructor of Music Theory at the
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Dr.
Gillingham has appeared as a featured performer with the Cincinnati Ballet,
Chamber Music Cincinnati, Close Encounters with Music Series in the Berkshires,
and International Midwest Clinic. As a soloist, she appeared at the
International WASBE convention, with the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra, and
with the Central Michigan Symphony Orchestra. In both solo and chamber roles,
she has given international and regional premieres of works by composers such
as Tan Dun, Steve Reich, David R. Gillingham, Lawrence Dillon, H. Owen Reed, and
Dana Wilson. Additionally, she has collaborated with artists such as eighth
blackbird, Yehuda Hanani, Stefan Milenkovich, Adam Neiman, and Joel Hoffman. Amy
Gillingham holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Violoncello Performance with a
Cognate in Music Theory from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music. She also holds a Master of Music from the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Music from the North Carolina School
of the Arts. Her major cello teachers include Yehuda Hanani, Lee Fiser, Marcy
Rosen, Robert Marsh, and James Fiste, Sölen Dikener, and Carl Donakowski.
