Dr. George Amorim
Lecturer
Double Bass / String Chamber Orchestra
Department of Music and Dance
College of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas - Pan American
Email: gamorim@utpa.edu
Office: Fine Arts Building 114
Phone: (956)292-7490

George Amorim is the Double Bass Instructor and the Chamber Orchestra Director at the University of Texas Pan American. Previously he served the University of North Texas as a Teaching Fellow where he is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in double bass performance with a minor in orchestral conducting under the tutelage of the world renowned performer and pedagogue Jeff Bradetich and Dr. Clay Coutoriaux respectively.

His orchestral performance credentials encompass eight years as a full time member of the Paraná State Symphony and Recife Symphony Orchestras in Brazil and innumerous professional engagements in the US and abroad, and since 2003 the Santo Domingo Music Festival Orchestra under Phillip Entremont.
Mr. Amorim attended the Hartt School of Music and holds a Master of Music degree from Baylor University. He won the Paraíba Music Award in 1996 and the second prize at the Young Talents Award in 1999, both in Brazil and the Honrina Barra International Chamber Music Competition and the Curitiba Chamber Music Award in 1999 with Zenamon Quintet - an ensemble devoted to the promotion of the music of Latin American composers.

An educator in demand, Mr. Amorim has published articles on double bass pedagogy and is sought after as a clinician, adjudicator and consultant in Texas and abroad having been featured at the 2006 Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio and the International Society of Bassists Convention in Oklahoma City in June 2007.

He spends his summers teaching in various summer programs such as the Abilene Summer Music Festival and Traveling Notes in Dominican Republic, where he
performs solo and chamber music. He is recipient of grants from Vitae and Lampadia Foundations for doctoral studies.