"Body Mapping Workshop"
with
Amy Likar

Amy Likar, flutist, Certified Andover Educator and AmSat certified Alexander Technique teacher, has presented Body Mapping workshops at numerous colleges and universities throughout the United States and Europe including a professional development workshop at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England now entering its third year. Ms. Likar has presented at National Flute Association Conventions, Music Teacher National Association Conferences and at Performing Arts Medicine Symposiums.

Ms. Likar is an active performing flutist and a member of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and as a freelancer has performed with Berkeley Symphony, Sacramento Choral Society, Opera Columbus, the San Francisco Broadway Series, Donald Pippin's Pocket Opera, Festival Opera, Peninsula Ballet Theatre and Lamplighters Music Theatre.. As a chamber musician she has performed with Trio Concertino and the Alcyone Ensemble.

Ms. Likar received her Alexander Technique Certification from the Alexander Training Institute of San Francisco studying with Frank Ottiwell, Robert Britton, Rome Earle, Simone Biase, Larry Ball and John Coffin. She has studied the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping for many years with Barbara Conable and in 2006 took over the training of teachers upon Barbara’s retirement.

She holds a MM and a DMA from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor's in Music Education and Flute Performance from Kent State University. While at Ohio State she won a Presidential Fellowship for her doctoral research on the History of the New York Woodwind Quintet and won the Peter A. Costanza Award for Outstanding DMA Document. An article entitled "A First-Rate Group" about the New York Woodwind Quintet was published in the Spring 2005 issue of the Flutist Quarterly. She also studied at the Conservatoire National de Nice, France. Her principal teachers include Martha Aarons and Katherine Borst Jones. Other influential teachers include Randy Hester, Peter Lloyd, Tim Day and Liisa Ruoho.