Dr. Amy N. S. Dodds
Dr. Amy N. S. Dodds
Music Assistant
Violin/Viola, Chamber Music
Whitman College
Walla Walla, Wash 99362
(509) 527-5232
doddsan@whitman.edu
Amy Dodds joined the music faculty at Whitman College in 2001. She received her M.A. in music and D.M.A. in violin performance from Claremont Graduate University, where she studied with Rachel Vetter Huang. Other teachers have included Susan Pickett, Anke Leibrecht, and Kathryn Gray. A recipient of two major fellowships while a doctoral student, Dr. Dodds also won competitions including the Polk Competition of the Claremont Colleges and the national Sister Mary Faustina Memorial Competition. Recent performances include recitals presented on baroque period instruments in Claremont, CA, which were presented on public television, and recitals in Portland, OR and Walla Walla, WA. A former member of the music faculties of Scripps College and the University of La Verne, Dr. Dodds is also a pianist, and teaches chamber music in addition to violin and viola at Whitman College.
Amy Dodds is currently researching the music of several British women composers, and spent the summer of 2002 as a reader in the British Library, London, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Past publications include book reviews on emerging sources of women composers and performers, as well as the edition of The Story of Music, a musical encyclopedia published in Great Britain.
In addition to her work at Whitman College, Dr. Dodds is principal second violin with the Walla Symphony, and directs the Milton-Stateline String Ensemble. She is married to Gregory Dodds, Assistant Professor of History at Walla Walla College.