Amanda Galick is a passionate music educator in the DMV area.

Amanda has over thirteen years of teaching experience and her students have consistently scored spots in competitive youth symphonies, state region band competitions, summer music festivals, and college music school. Amanda has compiled her teaching methods through years of training at top classical music schools and working with renowned flutists. She also holds a degree in K-12 music education and is a registered Suzuki flute teacher.

Throughout her teaching career, Amanda has held faculty positions at Sinfónica Azteca, a summer collegiate music festival in Puebla, Mexico, Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Sitka Fine Arts Camp, Belvoir Terrace Summer Fine Arts Camp, and The British International School of Houston. During her time in Houston, she worked daily with young beginner students as well as intermediate and advanced high school and adult students, maintaining a large private studio. As a clinician and AFA teaching artist, she has worked with countless flute sections across the Houston, Pearland and Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School Districts. She also co-founded Trillium Flute Collective in 2020, where she and her co-founders provided multiple virtual flute workshops and commissioned new music for solo flute. In 2016, Amanda completed a certificate with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, which sent her on flute teaching missions to Guanajuato, Mexico and St. Croix, of the US Virgin Islands. 

Amanda’s extensive experience as a performing musician contributes to her teaching. She is the former second flute and piccolo of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra. She has performed as guest principal flutist with the Fort Worth Symphony and has appeared with the orchestras of Houston Grand and Florida Grand Operas, Houston Symphony Orchestra, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Palm Beach Symphony, The Louisiana Philharmonic and The New World Symphony. As a chamber musician, Amanda performed frequently in Houston with Musiqa Houston, Texas New Music Ensemble, Loop38, Windsync, and as a Da Camera of Houston Young Artist. In the summers, she performs with the Artosphere Festival Orchestra with the Dover Quartet.

Amanda is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Flute Performance at the University of Maryland and holds a Master’s Degree in Flute Performance from The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and a Bachelor’s in Flute Performance and K-12 Music Education from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance.