Amber Svetik recently earned her Masters in Music Education from UNC Greensboro where she had an assistantship teaching and co-coordinating the Lillian Rauch Beginning Strings Program for fourth and fifth grade low-income students.
She was a lead instructor for Winston-Salem Symphony’s El Sistema inspired PLAY music program.
Growing up in Florida, Amber studied violin with Sarasota Orchestra musicians and performed in the Sarasota Youth Orchestras. She began studying Music Education at Florida State as a Gaston Dufresne Scholarship recipient where she studied string pedagogy under Dr. Kasia Bugaj and violin under Dr. Benjamin Sung. She was presented with the undergraduate Presser Scholar Award and graduated as a Garnet and Gold scholar.
Amber served as the Orchestra Director at Electa Arcotte Lee Magnet Middle School in Bradenton and conducted ensembles for the Sarasota Youth Orchestras and Summer Camps. Inspired having restricted access to string instruction in her youth, Amber began her own program, Violin Project Sarasota. Amber performed as a section violinist with the Venice Symphony, various regional orchestras, and local theaters.
She is now looking forward to building upon her career and interacting with the community here in Brevard, NC.