Teaching
A soprano who teaches
one singer at a time.
Draft bio — Amy's to edit, in her voice
Amy Buckley is a soprano and private voice teacher in Westbrook, Connecticut. She has kept a private studio in New York and Connecticut since 2000, teaching healthy vocal technique, musicianship and lyric diction to all levels and ages, across many kinds of music. The aim of every lesson is the one she states herself: to help students find and cultivate their authentic voice in a safe and creative environment.
She holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The Juilliard School and a B.A. in Music from the University of Connecticut, with a year at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Her teacher and mentor is W. Stephen Smith, author of The Naked Voice; she is a featured singer on the recording that accompanies the book, and in 2016 was Teacher in Residence at his Naked Voice Institute at Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music.
She still sings. A winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council regional audition, she made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2010 in a sold-out Weill Recital Hall, was a Resident Artist at the Aspen Music Festival and the Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival, and in 2023 was the soprano soloist on the world-premiere recording of All Is Mere Breath with the Empire City Men’s Chorus, on Navona Records. On the shoreline she appears with the Ivoryton Playhouse, where she debuted in 2015, and with Brief Cameo Productions.
Since 2017 she has been Director of Music at the Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society in Madison, and since 2015 Music Director of the middle-school theater program at Walsh Intermediate School in Branford, where she prepares more than sixty students a year for a fully staged musical. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and served as Vice President of its Connecticut Chapter in 2021–22.
