Recent Highlights
2025: Excursions for Wind Quintet and Piano to receive NFA premiere at the Sunday Gala Closing Concert. With the U.S. Army Wind Quintet and the composer at the piano.
2025: Solis performed by the South Shore Symphony conducted by Adam Glaser.
2025: Residency and recital at Ohio University.
2025: Residency with the Chicago Flute Club, Northwestern University and DePaul University. Harberg will perform a recital of her music with flutists from the Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera Orchestra, and faculty from Northwestern University and DePaul University: Stefán Hölskuldsson, Emma Gerstein, Jennifer Gunn, Alyce Johnson and John Thorne. She will also conduct materclasses of her music at Northwestern, DePaul, and the Chicago Flute Club.
2025: World premiere of And Dream of Clouds for piccolo and piano by piccoloist John Edwards at the Oklahoma Flute Society 2025 Flute Fair.
2025: Clarinet Concerto performed by Jane Carl with the University of Missouri Kansas City Wind Ensemble conducted by Steve Davis.
2025: Excursions for Wind Sextet and Piano receives its world premiere with the U.S. Army Wind Quintet and the composer at the piano.
2025: Harberg performs with Billy Short at the Meg Quigley Symposium.
2024: Firefly Triptych for alto flute and piano released by Theodore Presser as a standard issue release. Firefly Triptych is required repertoire for the NFA Convention competition in 2025.
2024: Lucas’s Garden performed at Disney Hall by LA Phil Concertmaster Martin Chalifour and musicians from the LA Philharmonic. in a celebration concert called “30 Years with Martin Chalifour.”
2024: Piccolo Concerto performed at Jordan Hall by Elizabeth McCormack and the New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra.
2024: Piccolo Concerto performed by Erica Peel and the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kyunghun Kim.
2024: Piccolo Concerto performed by Julietta Curenton and the Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra.
2024: Residency at Shenandoah University.
2024: Harberg joins the faculty at Berklee College of Music as an Associate Professor in the Contemporary Writing and Production department.
2024: Harberg is Composer in Residence with the International Piccolo Festival.
2024: Residency at Lawrence University.
2022-24: Harberg appointed inaugural Composer-in-Residence with the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra in a program created by Artistic Director Kyunghun Kim.
2023: Read about Amanda’s recent performances and collaborations here in New Jersey’s premiere arts website, NJArts.
Just out 2023: Three first prizes awarded to Piccolo Concerto, Fever Dreams, and Don’t Forget to Write in 2023 National Flute Association’s Newly Published Music Awards
2022-24: Harberg’s woodwind music used as required repertoire in international, national, and regional competitions, including those run by:
The National Flute Convention, the Australian Flute Festival, the Boston Woodwind Society, the Mid-Atlantic Flute Society, the Chicago Flute Club’s Walfrid Kujala International Piccolo Competition, the Oklahoma Flute Society, the Severino Gazzelloni International Flute Competition, the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition, the New Jersey Flute Society, the Music Educators Association of New Jersey, and the Philadelphia Flute Society.
2022 to present: Composer as pianist and duo partner Erica Peel join the roster of management company Allegro Music Consultants and perform numerous recitals together annually.
2022: Cedille Records presents Court Dances with saxophonist Julian Velasco and pianist Winston Choi on Velasco’s debut album entitled As We Are.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES 2023
April 21: National Symphony Orchestra’s Millenium Stage and Carole Bean present Harberg’s Hall of Ghosts and Piccolo Sonata
April 29: Juilliard Pre-College Symphony performs Solis conducted by Maestro Adam Glaser
May 5: the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra performs Solis conducted by Maestro Kyunghun Kim
May 7: Bunker Hill Series presents Music of Amanda Harberg and Francis Poulenc. Philadelphia Orchestra musicians Erica Peel (flute/piccolo), Paul Demers (clarinet), Philippe Tondre (oboe), and Jennifer Montone (horn) are joined by Harberg on the piano as well as bassoonist Adrian Morejon, and pianist Allison Franzetti in a concert of chamber music by Harberg and Poulenc. Featuring official world premiere of Crossroads for flute/piccolo, clarinet and piano.
May 9: Allegro Music Consultants presents recital with Philadelphia Orchestra piccolo/flutist Erica Peel and composer/pianist Amanda Harberg
May 20/21: Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra presents Harberg’s Elegy for viola and string orchestra with Maestro Jed Gaylin and violist Jason Diggs
June 1: International Tuba Euphonium Convention presents an all-Harberg program with tubist David Zerkel and pianist Liz Ames, featuring the world premiere of Harberg’s Tuba Sonata.
June 16: Madeline Island Chamber Music series presents Wild Prairie Winds in a performance of Harberg’s Suite for Wind Quintet
July 5-9: International Clarinet Convention presents Harberg’s Clarinet Sonata and Hall of Ghosts for solo clarinet, with clarinetists Tim Bonefant, Julianne Kirk Doyle, and pianist Martha Saywell.
July 21: Newport Classical Music Festival presents New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Anna Polonsky in a performance of Harberg’s Clarinet Sonata.
August 3: National Flute Convention: World premiere of Firefly Triptych (Alto Flute Sonata) for alto flute and piano with flutist Matthew Roitstein and pianist Amanda Harberg, followed by the NFA premiere of Crossroads for flute, English horn and piano with flutist Francesca Arnone and English hornist Amy Collins
August 7: Interlochen Arts Camp presents Prayer performed by the Interlochen Philharmonic conducted by Maestro Chelsea Tipton
August 27: Moab Music Festival presents clarinetist Rob Patterson in a performance of Harberg’s Clarinet Sonata.
October 13-15: The Phoenix Symphony performs Solis conducted by Maestro Tito Munoz