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BIO

In 2024, Olivia joined the West Point Band as Second Horn. She has performed across the world, including China, Vienna's Musikverein, the Estates Theater in Prague, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center. She has performed with many ensembles, including Celtic Woman, the Philly Pops, Hudson Valley Symphony Orchestra, Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bay Atlantic Symphony, Symphony in C, Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Bozeman Symphony, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. She can be heard in the 2025 film The Rivals of Amziah King and an upcoming album by the Felice Brothers.

Olivia is passionate about teaching, encouraging students to think critically and enjoy learning. She is Adjunct Faculty at SUNY New Paltz. Olivia is committed to equity and is a Performing Member of the Chromatic Brass Collective, which seeks to increase the visibility of women and non-binary musicians of color.

 

Olivia dabbles in jazz, natural horn, and new music. Her quintet Amo Brass performs and teaches across the country and was awarded the 2026 Ann Divine Educator Award by the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association. The group spearheaded a consortium to commission Aliyah Danielle, a genre-bending composer and musician, to write a piece which they recorded. Amo was a Finalist at the 2023 Plowman Chamber Music Competition and won the American Brass Quintet Prize at the 2023 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

Currently, she is ABD, working towards a DMA at Temple University. She earned her Master's in Music at Yale University and Bachelor's in Music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Past teachers include Randy Gardner, William Purvis, Richard Seraphinoff, Dale Clevenger, Jeff Nelsen, William Browne, and Jim Deal.

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