Amrutha Murthy is the new Assistant Director of Bands at Park Vista Community High School in Lake Worth, Florida. She graduated from the University of North Texas as a music education and flute performance double major. Amrutha was the 2021 UNT Presser Scholar and Honors College Distinguished Scholar. She studied flute at UNT with Dr. James Scott and Dr. Mary Karen Clardy, performed with the North Texas Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, Chamber Ensembles, Composition Department Ensembles, and served as the Student Administrator for Logistics and Operations for the Green Brigade Marching Band.

 

Amrutha studied conducting with her mentor, Dr. Daniel Cook, and has been selected to participate in several conducting symposia including the Northwestern University and CU Boulder summer symposia. She successfully defended an Undergraduate Thesis through the Honors College on the flow theory and positive community psychology in secondary school band environments, and has presented a clinic on this topic at the Texas Music Educators Association conference in 2022. 

 

Amrutha has been an avid pianist since her childhood, completing the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music piano and music theory program with merit. She graduated from the Academy of Science and Technology at College Park High School as a three-year Texas All-State flutist, flutist and piccoloist for the Houston Youth Symphony, and the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Michigan.

 

Amrutha holds professional affiliations with the Texas Music Educators Association, and served as the Founder and Chapter President for the Xi Beta Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at UNT. She was a summer arts counselor at Interlochen Arts Camp and was a Young Band Directors of Texas College Representative, Intercollegiate Marching Band, and Mu Phi Epsilon member.