Amy Elizabeth Wheeler is a dynamic performer and a versatile vocalist. Her career began as a singer/songwriter performing club dates in New York followed by the movie "Fame" and a European tour of the Broadway rock-musical "Hair". She debuted with the Warsaw Chamber Opera in Poland and toured extensively throughout Europe performing Mozart roles as well performing as a solo concert artist at international music festivals. She teamed up with lutenist Jaroslaw Lipski to record a critically acclaimed CD of English lute songs titled "What Thing is Love". Amy is signed with several music production libraries and her multiple genre recordings have been placed in several TV and film productions. Since 2004, Amy has been the Artistic Director for "Den sjungande julgranen" (The Singing Christmas Tree) a highly popular out-door Christmas event in "Julstaden Göteborg", Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Bio

Amy Elizabeth Wheeler is a dynamic performer and a versatile vocalist. Her career began as a singer/songwriter performing club dates in New York followed by the movie "Fame" and a European tour of the Broadway rock-musical "Hair" performing the role of Crissy. She debuted as a soloist with the Warsaw Chamber Opera in Poland and toured extensively throughout Europe performing Mozart roles such as Cherubino, Blondchen and Ismene. As a solo concert artist Amy has performed at numerous international music festivals and concert houses among them American Opera Projects, the Madrid Mozart Festival, Poland's National Philharmonic and Göteborgs Konserthus. Together with lutenist Jaroslaw Lipski, she recorded a critically acclaimed CD of English lute songs titled "What Thing is Love" which has received well-over 200,000 downloads on Early Music America. She continues her collaboration with international artists producing and performing a diverse selection of musical projects, most notably as the Artistic Director for "Den sjungande julgranen" (the Singing Christmas Tree) in Gothenburg, Sweden. As an artist/producer, Amy writes, records and produces music for the following music production libraries: Crucial Music, Perpetual Music Group, HD Music Now, Platinum Music and Audiosparx. Her multiple genre recordings have had several placements in TV and film productions.
Amy also regularly coaches young artists on how to map out their careers and how to pick and prepare the right repertoire for auditions. She has a studio with full video and recording facilities to help artists focus on developing their stage technique and artistic flair. Her work with choirs and choir directors is extensive with an emphasis on bringing choirs into close range with their audiences.
Raised in New York City, Amy graduated from the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and earned her Bachelor degree in Voice from the Manhattan School of Music. She was a recipient of The Fund a Rockefeller/Kennedy Foundation award for her work as a U.S. artist performing in international festivals (2000), and received a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation award for her research on Venetian composer Baldessare Galuppi (2004).

Reviews

"Rural Renaissance Festival " (Performance with archguitarist Peter Blanchette and the Virtual Consort) [Wheeler's] voice was a joy to hear something in her seems to resonate easily with the period, making the music not only exquisite but somehow authentic. Her devotion to expressing the full meaning of the songs was gratifying her stage savvy helped her get everything possible out of each song her ornamentation was superb. All this, together with her effective expressions and Blanchette's remarkable accompaniment, combined to captivate the audience, which more than once let out sighs of enjoyment. - Thomas W. Hutchinson, The Recorder, Greenfield, MA USA

[CD What Thing Is Love] "I enjoyed it immensely.Amy's is a lovely natural voice, suitably sexy for the sentiments,fine lute playing. it is a fascinating program, you can purchase single tracks on the internet but I'd rather get the whole CD: it's too good just to select a few tracks. highly recommended."
- Clifford Bartlett, Editor, Early Music Review

SUBLIME! if you dig this genre this is one of the best releases out there. Overflowing with good cheer. - Dave Bowman CD Baby

"One of my absolute favourite recordings that I use for High End speaker demonstrations is What Thing Is Love. It is a superb performance from artists of the highest quality in this genre. Excellently recorded, with varied acoustics and technical combinations, this is a very interesting CD, I strongly recommend it.-Percy Davidsson, Canseda AB, Sweden

"Scandinaviana" (Performance, Poland's National Philharmonic)once again [Wheeler] not only shows us that she can sing exquisitely and intelligently, with such expressive acting, but also that she knows precisely about what she is singing and how to command the stage.
-Dorota Szwarcman, Ruch Muzyczny, Music Magazine

"49th International Chopin Festival"(Performance)[Wheeler] performed an unforgettable Stabat Mater"
-Wiadomosci Kulturalne, Warszawa, Poland

"Warsaw Chamber Opera" (Performance) the WCO's new acquisition [A.E. Wheeler] in the role of Fauno [Ascanio in Alba] shows an outstanding acting talent and a singer with a predisposition to the Mozart style"
-Gazeta Wyborcza, Warszawa, Poland