AMN Stories - Amateur Music Network

Lonely for music

Lolly Lewis wants to be back in the concert hall, where music is a communal acoustic voyage into the spaces of our shared imagination.

Kathy Angus: singing like a big girl

Kathy Angus "loves music down to her toes." But she found her own voice only after years of teaching others the importance of theirs.

Jerry Simas: home-grown musician

Jerome Simas has been a professional musician for so many years now that he's not even sure he could ﬁgure out how long. Now he plays with the SF Symphony.

Music resources for when you're stuck at home

Collecting ideas and resources to help musicians get through the pandemic and a time of enforced isolation. Don't let being apart keep you from being a musician!

Side By Side

Amateur Music Network’s Lolly Lewis spoke with SF Chamber Orchestra Music Director Benjamin Simon about AMN’S Third Annual Side by Side partnership with the SFCO: what drew him to this music and why he keeps coming back to working with amateurs.