Lisa-Maree Amos
has been Guest Principal Flute with both the BBC Symphony and the Boston Symphony working with many legendary conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Bernstein, and Bernard Haitink. Her performances in major international Festivals including the London Proms, LA Bach Festival, Aldeburgh and Spitalfields have received critical acclaim. As a student, Ms. Amos participated in programs including Tanglewood Music Center, Jeunesse Musicales World Orchestra, Respighi, Schleswig-Holstein and Aspen Music Festivals, Nice Flute Acadamie and was Principal Flute of the Australian Youth Orchestra. She has received awards and prizes from the Royal College of Music, London; Tangelwood Music Center, USA; Countess of Munster Fund, UK; English Speaking Union, UK; Royal Overseas League Music Competition, UK; East West Artists New York Competition. She has reached the finals of auditions for San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. As a member of the contemporary music ensemble “Jane’s Minstrels”, she has toured the USA, Scandinavia and the UK, making many radio broadcasts and recordings and made her London Wigmore Hall debut in 2003. Further recordings, performances and broadcasts have been with the Los Angeles Flute Quartet and her partnership with her husband Peter Sheridan in the Married Flutes. She has performed in the National Flute Conventions in Las Vegas and San Diego, and in the 5th Australian Flute Convention in Brisbane. For the past decade Lisa-Maree has served as Principal Flute with the Colorado Music Festival performing concertos by Nielsen, Martin, JS Bach, Thea Musgrave and with guitarist Eliot Fisk a new concerto by Augusta Read-Thomas, in addition to her symphony & chamber music duties.
LISA-MAREE AMOS was recently appointed Principal Flute of Orchestra Victoria, enjoying a variety of musical activities including recording, chamber and symphony performances and working with the Australian Ballet & Opera Australia.
"Finely played by Lisa-Maree Amos..an altogether excellent concert"Michael White -Independent on Sunday - Aldeburgh Festival.
"Sheer golden sound - the flutist Lisa-Maree Amos was outstanding" - Richard Dyer - Boston Globe