Contact Information:
319-273-2547 (phone)
319-273-7320 (fax)

amanda.mccandless@uni.edu

School of Music
Russell Hall 115
Cedar Falls, IA 50614

Amanda McCandless is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Northern Iowa.  Dr. McCandless has performed recitals throughout the U.S. and abroad.  She has been a guest artist at many national and regional clarinet events, including the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, Michigan State University’s Clarinet Spectacular and the Eastern Kentucky University Clarinet Festival.  She was a guest artist and clinician at the Bolivian National Conservatory of Music in La Paz, Bolivia and at the University of Puerto Rico.

Dr. McCandless was a finalist in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and was twice a finalist in the International Clarinet Association’s Young Artist Competition.  She was a winner of the 2004 Michigan State University Concerto Competition, performing Joan Tower’s Clarinet Concerto.  She has performed in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Midland Symphony Orchestra and the Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, and performed as principal clarinet in the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra and the Tulsa Ballet Orchestra.

Dr. McCandless holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree and Master of Music degree from Michigan State University, where she was a student of Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr.  She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Eastern Kentucky University, where she was a student of Connie Rhoades.  Dr. McCandless has also studied with Ted Oien, Charles Neidich, Colin Lawson, and Peter Jenkin.  

Recordings by Amanda McCandless

Karel Husa's Three Studies for Solo Clarinet

1. Mountain Bird

2. Poignant Song

3. Relentless Machine