Amos & Dietz

Join Megan Amos and Emily Dietz in Orchestra Hall on Wednesday, June 5 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. for a special concert.

This recital will feature music from baroque and light classics to familiar favorites. Come to learn all about this instrument in a relaxed and approachable outdoor setting.

Amos has been the principal horn player of the Toledo Symphony since 2019. Additionally, she is principal (first) horn in the Columbus Symphony.

She was the grand prize winner of the Susan Slaughter Solo Brass Competition at the 2019 International Women’s Brass Conference.

In addition to the Toledo Symphony, Amos has appeared as a soloist with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Perrysburg Symphony and the Aspen Music Festival.

In 2017, she did a solo tour in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of the Educational Bridge Project.

She frequently performs with orchestras in the area including the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, where she was the principal horn player from 2018-2019, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Originally from York, Maine, Amos studied at the New England Conservatory from 2013-2017. Her mentors include Jamie Sommerville and Adam Unsworth. She performs on the third horn made by the legendary Ukrainian-American horn maker, Jerry Lechniuk.

Dietz has been a member of the Toledo Symphony horn section since 2000. She has also performed chamber music with the brass and woodwind quintets, and other various ensembles on the chamber music series.

Dietz has performed with the Detroit Symphony, Columbus Symphony and Milwaukee Symphony, and served as principal horn for Utah Festival Opera in Logan, Utah, for eight seasons.

Her main teachers have been Louis Stout, Douglas Hill and Randy Gardner. Dietz holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.

She resides in Perrysburg with her family and enjoys teaching horn lessons, baking, gardening and old house maintenance in her spare time.