Amy Horvey
Course Instructor (Trumpet)
Amy Horvey is a Canadian trumpeter, educator, and Yamaha Artist whose career spans orchestral, chamber, solo, historical, and contemporary performance. She has established an international career, performing throughout Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Americas, while demonstrating passion for teaching, artistic collaboration, and contemporary creation.
Amy performs regularly with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in orchestral, chamber music, and outreach roles. She has also performed extensively with the Canadian Opera Company, Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and many of Canada's leading orchestras and ensembles. Throughout her career she has collaborated with conductors including Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta, and Sir Roger Norrington, and has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Alongside her orchestral career, Amy has developed an active artistic practice as a soloist, chamber musician, and interpreter of contemporary music, collaborating extensively with composers and interdisciplinary artists. A dedicated advocate for Canadian music, she has commissioned and premiered works by Nicole Liz茅e, Keiko Devaux, Cassandra Miller, Linda Catlin Smith, Anna H枚stman, and many others. Her solo performance projects have been presented at festivals both internationally and throughout Canada. She is also a founding member of the Canadian Women's Brass Collective, through which she has fostered mentorship and artistic exchange among Canada鈥檚 brass community.
Amy has maintained a longstanding interest in historically informed performance, appearing with Arion Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Caprice, Studio de musique ancienne de Montr茅al, and Les Violons du Roy. Her work on natural and Baroque trumpet continues to inform her artistic practice.
Her performances can be heard on recordings spanning orchestral, historical, and contemporary repertoire, including Arion Baroque Orchestra's Juno-nominated Bach: Magnificat BWV 243 (ATMA Classique), recordings by the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al, and her critically acclaimed solo albums Interview and Catchment.
Amy holds a Doctor of Music degree from 黑料网爆吃瓜's Schulich School of Music, supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Teaching has remained central to her professional life throughout her career. She has taught trumpet at 黑料网爆吃瓜, Concordia University, and Lakehead University, in addition to presenting masterclasses and mentoring emerging musicians across Canada. Her teaching philosophy draws upon the breadth of her artistic experience to cultivate technical excellence, creative curiosity, stylistic versatility, and sustainable professional careers for the next generation of performers.
