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Trumpeter Amy Horvey (1980) received her BMus. at the University of Victoria with Lou Ranger, and also studied at the Glenn Gould School with Andrew McCandless. She played in the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2000-2002, studying in this period with Vincent Cichowicz and Larry Knopp. From 2003-2005 Amy studied with Andre Heuvelman at the Rotterdam Conservatory, and graduated with the highest possible honors in 2005. She also studied privately with Marco Blaauw while in the Netherlands.

Amy has worked internationally with a wide range of performance projects specializing in cutting-edge contemporary music. In 2004 she performed works by Peter Hatch, Roger Doyle, and Stanley Friedman at the "Link" Music Competition in the Netherlands, winning the Jury Prize; and, in 2005, appeared as a featured soloist with the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, performed in the Holland Festival's production of John Taverner's "The Veil of the Temple", and premiered Philip Matuczewski's Concerto for Trumpet.

She has commissioned works from many composers, including Marc Yeats, Cecilia Arditto, Christopher Butterfield, Isak Goldschneider, Ryan Purchase, and Daisuke Terauchi.

Amy is a trumpeter with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, and teaches trumpet at Lakehead University. She is currently (April-October 2006) touring Canada with a program of new music for solo trumpet.