Amy PutnamAffiliate Artist, percussion Phone: 253.879.3700
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Ms. Amy Putnam (MMus '96, The Juilliard School), teaches percussion at Puget Sound. In addition, Ms. Putnam is principal percussion with both the Tacoma Symphony orchestra and The Bellevue Philharmonic. As a percussionist and timpanist, Ms. Putnam has performed with the Seattle Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Northwest Sinfonietta, The Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, the Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra, Candide at Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre in NYC, the Seattle Chorale Company, the Echternach Festival Orchestra in Luxembourg, the Cosmopolitan Symphony Orchestra in NYC, the Aspen Music Festival, and many more. A part of Seattle’s freelance scene, she also is active recording film and television scores for Disney, Dreamworks, Universal, A&E, FOX, TNT, Artisan, ABC and NBC. As a marimba and multi-percussion soloist, Ms. Putnam has performed with L’Orchestre des Professeurs du Luxembourg, the Tacoma Symphony, the Bellevue Philharmonic, the Tacoma Concert Band, the Miami University Symphony Orchestra, the University of Puget Sound Percussion Ensemble, and Luxembourg Percussion. In 1998 she was a finalist in the St. Louis Symphony Young Artists Competition and in 1995 was a semi-finalist in the International Competition for Percussion in Luxembourg. After founding her own business, A. PUTNAM MALLETS, in 1988, Ms. Putnam has given demonstrations and master classes at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the Luxembourg Conservatory of Music, the University of British Columbia, and the New York Day of Percussion. Ms. Putnam also holds a BMus in Education and Performance from Miami University, Ohio, and a Prix Superieur Diploma in Percussion from Le Conservatoire de Musique de la Ville du Luxembourg. | 
