Amy Ahn is principal harpist of the Stockton Symphony and a nationally acclaimed harp soloist whose career spans a wide range of musical genres and contexts. As a distinguished ensemble musician, she has collaborated with San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Stanford Jazz, among several orchestras in the West Coast.
In 2023, Amy won third prize in the American Harp Society’s National Competition and a top prize in the Busan Maru International Music Festival Concerto Competition. As a recording artist, Amy has produced her own original music and can also be heard on records by Pulitzer Prize winner Du Yun, Grammy Award-winning producer M-Phazes, John Wineglass, Spellling, among many other projects. Known for her artistic versatility, she has performed with artists such as Doe Paoro, Little Kruta, Ken Peplowski, Sarah Brightman, and Thaddeus Hogarth.
Amy has performed internationally at venues including Jordan Hall, National Sawdust, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kraków Philharmonic Hall, Musikverein, Smetana Hall, Geoam Art Hall, and Kumho Art Hall. A passionate chamber musician and new music advocate, she has performed the premieres of works by Samuel Adams, Elliott Carter, Hiroya Miura, Sid Richardson, Justin Weiss, and Chen Yi.
She holds a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Dr. June Han. She also holds a Master’s degree from Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she studied with Felice Pomeranz and Ina Zdorovetchi, and a Bachelor’s degree from UCLA, where she studied with Lou Anne Neill.
Amy is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and maintains her own private harp studio. She loves bringing the harp to different contexts and regularly performs recitals, holds symposiums in k-12 schools and memory care centers, and plays at pop concerts and weddings.