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Four on the Floor

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Four on the Floor was written for Kathleen Cameron and the Clarke College Flute
Ensemble.

Duration: 3 Minutes

Amy Dunker has degrees from Morningside College (BME-Music Education), the
University of South Dakota (MM-Trumpet Performance), Butler University (MM-Composition)
and a DMA (Composition) from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music.
She has studied composition with James Mobberley, Chen Yi, Robert L. Cooper, Michael
Schelle, James Aikman and Robert P. Block. Amys works have been performed at various
conference and festival venues throughout the United States, Czech-Republic, Mexico Puerto
Rico, Japan, the Ukraine and Italy. Her works have been performed by the following musicians
and ensembles: Kathleen Karr (Louisville Orchestra), Shannon Finney (Kansas City Symphony),
the Indianapolis Brass Choir, Ensemble Octandre, Southeastern Ohio Symphony Orchestra,
Ovations Youth Orchestra of the Wheeling Symphony, Dubuque Symphony Orchestra and the
Note Bene Ensemble. Amy has received three ASCAP Standard Awards and a second place
award in the Penfield Wind Band Competition. She has received commissions from the
Indianapolis Brass Choir, Butler University Wind Ensemble, the Starr Foundation (Kansas City,
MO), the Ovations Youth Orchestra of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra (Wheeling, WVA),
and the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra (Dubuque, IA). Amys works have received reviews in
Flute Talk (November 1998), the Dubuque Telegraph Herald (October, 2002), Saxophone Journal
(November/December 2001) and the Society of Composers, Inc., Newsletter (April/May 2000).
Amys works have been recorded on the NextAGem and Whaatsit Music labels (available from
CDBaby.com). Amys piano work entitled Three Minute Sonata will be recorded in December
of 2005 by Dr. Kris Carlisle (Berry College) for release to research institutions as part of a larger
research project on the contemporary piano sonata. Amy is an assistant professor of music at
Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa.
Website:
http://keller.clarke.edu/~adunker

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