Master Classes/Coaching
Vocal Ensembles/Songwriters











Amy leads master classes in vocal performance, group performance, choral performance, stage savvy, songwriting and auditioning for teens and adults and has adjudicated at major a cappella competitions in the U.S. for many years. She also offers private coaching in songwriting.
Email coldfootrecords@gmail.com if you are interested in working with Amy or bringing her to your school, your group or your interwebs machine.
SAMPLE CV:
SONGWRITING
I ARE MUSIC/COLDFOOT RECORDS (Online via Zoom) - small group master classes for adults/teens
PERFORMER’S THEATER WORKSHOP (Online/Maplewood, NJ) – individual songwriting for teens
SINGSTRONG DC - 15-minute Songwriters Clinic
VOCALNATION FESTIVAL (Philadelphia) -15-minute Songwriters Clinic
HARMONY COLLEGE NEW ENGLAND 2015 (Worcester, MA)
LOS ANGELES BERKLEE ALUMNI SONGWRITERS FORUM (co-creator)
GROUP COACHING/MASTER CLASSES
SHESINGS 2017 (Berkeley, CA)
THE FOURCE – (NJ) barbershop quartet stage coaching
SATELLITE LANE - (Long Island, NY)
HARMONY COLLEGE NEW ENGLAND 2015 (Worcester, MA) – Master classes (songwriting/Finding Your Funny - being comfortable onstage), also Keynote Speaker
CAL STATE SAN BERNARDINO (San Bernardino, CA)
GENTLEMEN SONGSTERS (Lowell, MA) – 30-voice Barbershop
COUNCIL ROCK HIGH SCHOOLS (Holland, PA)
A CAPPELLA PROJECT PHILADELPHIA – Summer/Winter Workshops, Master Class Clinician, Singing Compelling Solos Master Class
BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, RI) –Master classes with The Ursa Minors (all female a cappella group) and Harmonic Motion (mixed)
MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL (Morristown, NJ)
SOUTH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL (Reston, VA)
RAMAZ YESHIVA (New York City) – choral workshop/Q&A
CHERRY HILL HIGH SCHOOL WEST (Cherry Hill, NJ)
CASA (Contemporary A Cappella Society): VoCALnation (Philadelphia) - Seminar: Finding Your Funny, Concert Emcee
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SETNOR SCHOOL OF MUSIC - Windjammer
SINGSTRONG DC - Seminar: Finding Your Funny, performance coaching
COMEDYSPORTZ PHILADELPHIA – Musical Improvisation workshop
LOS ANGELES A CAPPELLA FESTIVAL– Master Class Clinician, Seminar (Finding Your Funny)
RESIDENCIES
TEMPLE JUNIOR COLLEGE (Temple, TX) - Artist Residency - Master Classes, Audition Coaching
MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY NEW MUSICALS WORKSHOP (Decatur, IL) – Artist/Writer in Residence – Composer/Lyricist of BASTARD JONES musical. NAMT Writers Residency Grant, University Fellowship Grant, developing and workshopping a new musical with student performers and faculty advisors
BETHANY ARTS COMMUNITY (Ossining, NY) - worked with Ossining HS as part of writer residency to develop a musical for young performers
THEATRICAL COACHING
PERFORMER’S THEATER WORKSHOP (Online/Maplewood, NJ) – Song interp for teens, workshopping new musicals
YOUNG ACTORS THEATRE CAMP (San Francisco) – Audition Clinician
SEATTLE CENTER - Singing Auditions for Non-Singer Actors
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles) – Guest Clinician, Auditioning for Musical Theater (singers and non-singers)
CHERRY HILL HIGH SCHOOL WEST (Cherry Hill, NJ) - Musical Theater Performance Coaching
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY DRAMA DEPARTMENT - Theater Lab Guest Artist
COMPETITIONS
NATIONAL HARMONY SWEEPSTAKES (San Francisco) – Finals Judge/Emcee (2017, 2009, 2007, 2002)
REGIONAL HARMONY SWEEPSTAKES (Los Angeles) – Finals Judge (2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2010)
SINGSTRONG FESTIVAL
ICCA LOS ANGELES REGIONALS
LOS ANGELES A CAPPELLA FESTIVAL (LAFF)
BOSTON SINGS (BOSS) Judge/Emcee
MIDWEST A CAPPELLA FESTIVAL
YAMAHA/NAMM 2020
In Person Workshops With THE BOBS (partial listing 1998-2012): Fairfax County Elementary Schools (VA), SPOT Residency (University of Iowa): Des Moines YMCA Summer Camps, Iowa Children’s Museum, Marcy School (Minneapolis), Chestnut Ridge Middle School (PA), Nellysford, VA Community Center, State of Delaware Dept. of Education, Winchester Community Center (Las Vegas), Center of Contemporary Arts (St. Louis, MO), Northampton High (MA), Lincoln High (Santa Clara, CA), Hamilton High (Los Angeles), Rutgers Prep (NJ), Yeshiva of Flatbush (NY), Mira Mesa HS (San Diego), San Jose Academy HS (CA), Christian Brothers Academy (Sacramento), Cal State Sacramento, Durham School for the Arts (NC), Morningside College (Sioux City, IA), Purdue Convocations, Kentucky Center for the Arts