Kenneth Amis

  • Affiliated Artist, MIT Wind Ensemble
Email
kamis@mit.edu
Phone
(617) 253-3210
Web
amismusicalcircle.com

Kenneth Amis was born and raised in Bermuda. He began playing the piano at a young age and upon entering high school took up the tuba and developed an interest in performing and writing music. He is currently Assistant Conductor for the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE).

A Suite for Bass Tuba, composed when he was only fifteen, marked Amis’ first published work. A year later, at age sixteen, he enrolled in Boston University where he majored in composition. After graduating from Boston University he attended the New England Conservatory of Music where he received his master’s degree, also in composition.

Audiences around the world have enjoyed Amis’ music through performances by such groups as the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the United States Air Force Band, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Boston Classical Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and others. As a tuba player, Amis has performed as a soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra and has been a member of the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra in addition to the New World Symphony Orchestra. His performance skills are showcased on many commercial records distributed internationally.

Amis has served on the faculties of Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. In 2007, he was composer-in-residence at the South Shore Conservatory in Massachusetts. In 2003, Amis became the youngest recipient of New England Conservatory of Music’s “Outstanding Alumni Award.”

Amis is presently the tuba player of the Empire Brass and the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, a performing artist for Besson instruments, and on the faculties of Boston University, the Boston Conservatory of Music, Longy School of Music, and the Conservatory at Lynn University.

An active composer, Amis has been commissioned over a dozen times and has written for many organizations including the New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the University of Scranton, the College Band Directors National Association, the Boston Classical Orchestra and a consortium of twenty universities and music organizations. His music is published by Subito Corp., Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. and through his own company, Amis Musical Circle.

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