Amy Mazzeo was born in San Jose, California and moved to the Midwest when she was three years old. She began singing in Rolla Choral Arts Society’s children’s choir in grade school, eventually moving up to the adult community choir. She has appeared as a featured soloist for RCAS three times, most recently for Rutter’s Magnificat. Amy attended Millikin University for her undergraduate studies where she was a Waddell-Kirkman Music Scholar and also received the Dean’s Scholarship for Excellence in Music. While attending Millikin, she was a four-year member of their flagship traditional choral ensemble University Choir under the direction of Dr. Brad Holmes. With this ensemble she toured Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia in 2014 and Spain in 2017. She was also a member of the university’s top vocal jazz ensemble OneVoice under the direction of Dr. Steven Widenhofer, with whom she traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to perform at the National Jazz Education Network conference and later to Argentina to tour in Buenos Aires. While Amy was a member of OneVoice, the group won two awards for outstanding performance from Downbeat magazine. She graduated with her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance in May of 2017.
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Amy moved to St. Louis, Missouri after graduation to pursue her master’s degree at Webster University where she is studying with Dr. Jacob Lassetter. She appeared in Webster Opera Studio's winter scenes concert as Suor Angelica in Puccini's Suor Angelica and Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, and for spring scenes took on the roles of Mariane in Mechem's Tartuffe and Mother in Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel. She also performed in the chorus two productions with Winter Opera St. Louis, first in the world premier of Blumenfeld's Borgia Infami and then in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore. In the summer of 2018 she performed in the chorus of Union Avenue Opera's well-received production of Nabucco. She recently traveled to Toronto, Ontario to perform Cizi Knezna in Dvorak's Rusalka and then to Vancouver, British Columbia to perform Mutter in Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel both under the direction of Luke Housner. She is returning to perform with Housner's programs again in the summer of 2019 to perform Fiordiligi.
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