Amanda Hardy

Amanda Hardy joined the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra as principal oboe in November 2013 where she occupies the Clinton Graffam Chair. As a recipient of the Gillet Scholarship and Tourjée Alumni Scholarship Award, Amanda studied with BSO principal oboist John Ferrillo at the New England Conservatory (NEC). Amanda has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall (2009), the Portland Symphony, the Chelsea Music Festival, the NEC Bach Ensemble, the Drake Symphony Orchestra, and the Des Moines Youth Symphony at age sixteen.  Amanda is a frequent performer with the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops, with whom she has both toured and recorded. She has been guest principal oboe with the Boston Pops, A Far Cry, Emmanuel Music, the Des Moines Symphony, and the Boston Philharmonic. Amanda is Assistant Professor of Oboe at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, is on the faculty of New England Conservatory Preparatory School, and teaches at Northeastern University. Her solo work can be heard in a recently released CD, Dancing with J.S. Bach (2019), on the Chelsea Music Festival Live label.