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Amber Ghent
Canada, Ontario, Waterloo & Hamilton
Cellist, Madawaska String Quartet
M.Mus., Performance studying at San Francisco Conservatory and in Cleveland with members of the Cleveland Orchestra
B.Mus., Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University
Licensed Body Mapping Educator, 2015

I am a cellist, educator, and neurokinetic therapist based in Hamilton, Ontario. I help musicians retrain their movement and awareness to reduce tension and play with greater ease. In addition to teaching the six-hour course “What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body” I also offer shorter workshops tailored to the specific needs of various instrumentalists. Since licensing in 2015 I’ve worked with young students, university studios, teaching organizations, professional musicians and offered workshops at the Suzuki Association of the Americas Conference, Music at Port Milford, the Brott Music Festival, and Wilfrid Laurier University.
In 2024 I expanded my qualifications by becoming a Neurokinetic and Registered Massage Therapist. This allows me to integrate body mapping education, manual therapy, and rehabilitative exercise to help musicians retrain their nervous system for optimal movement.
As cellist with the Madawaska String Quartet from 2009-2024, I performed at prominent venues throughout Canada including Festival of the Sound, Elora Festival, Indian River Festival, Ottawa Chamberfest, 21C at Koerner Hall and premiered over thirty new works. I’ve worked with new music and baroque ensembles including Tapestry New Opera, Baroque and Beyond, and served as assistant principal of the Erie Philharmonic. Currently I perform regularly with the Hamilton Philharmonic and Niagara Symphony Orchestra and serve as principal cellist of Sinfonia Ancaster.
I am an instructor at Redeemer University in Hamilton and taught for over a decade at both Wilfrid Laurier University’s String Academy and the Suzuki String School of Guelph. With the quartet I was an artist-in-residence at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough Campus.
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