Join the Professional Development Speaker Series for a talk on music journalism and marketing to media outlets with Amanda Cook, Editor-in-Chief of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and Music Critic.

This talk is open to all Oberlin students.  Pre-registration is required: 

https://oberlin.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvdOqtqj0sGtCGYpZmwbJju-QDa1KpnFq4

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Amanda Cook is a Boston-based music critic and digital editor with a background in flute performance, higher education, and nonprofit administration. She is the Editor-in-Chief of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, an award-winning platform for new music. Her background in music performance, education, and nonprofit administration coupled with her current work in music journalism provides a unique perspective from which to view the current state of classical music. 

As an advocate for contemporary music, Amanda is especially interested in providing a platform for historically marginalized and underrepresented artists. As Editor-in-Chief of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN since September 2017, her work has been recognized in State of Digital Publishing, Boston Voyager Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, and Metrowest Daily News. Her writing has taken her throughout the United States and abroad, including international festival coverage from Musica nova Helsinki (Finland), SPOR Festival (Denmark), Borealis (Norway) and ISCM World Music Days/Estonian Music Days (Estonia).

Amanda has been published in National Sawdust Log; MTNA’s American Music Teacher magazine; Naxos of America’s Explore Classical Music; Sirp, an Estonian culture magazine; The Flutist Quarterly, the flagship member publication of the National Flute Association; and The Flute View: a magazine for flutists, by flutists. Her doctoral dissertation, Encounters with the Avant-Garde: Four Case Studies in the Reception History of Contemporary Flute Works (1971-present), is a synthesis of her research areas of interest: flute performance, musicology, and music criticism.

Amanda holds degrees from West Virginia University (DMA), Kent State University (MM), and George Mason University (BM). She has previously held positions as Registrar/Marketing Manager at Suzuki School of Newton; Lecturer of Music History and Theory at West Virginia University; and Instructor of Flute and Music Theory at The Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary.