Dr. Amy Schumaker Bliss is a euphonium artist and music educator based in the Philadelphia area. Originally from Ohio, she attended Capital University Conservatory of Music in Columbus where she double majored in euphonium performance and music education, studying with Dr. Thomas Zugger and James Swearingen. She earned her master’s degree in euphonium performance studying with Steven Mead and David Thornton at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England where she earned Honors with Distinction in Performance. In 2015, she graduated from Rutgers University as the school's first doctoral euphonium student, studying with Dr. Stephen Arthur Allen and mentored by Aaron VanderWeele.
Amy has been building a career that combines her love for performing with her love for teaching music. She began teaching euphonium at Rowan University in 2012, where she also teaches music appreciation, coaches the tuba/euphonium quartet, works with the Atlantic Youth Brass Band and Rowan University Brass Band, conducts summer brass choir, and teaches private lessons on euphonium, baritone, and tuba to community members. She is also Senior Adjunct Professor of Music at Rowan College at Burlington County where she teaches music appreciation and euphonium. As a performer, Amy's current ongoing projects include playing solo euphonium in the Atlantic Brass Band (ensemble-in-residence at Rowan University) and Liberty Wind Ensemble, a professional wind ensemble outside of Philadelphia. Amy was recently a featured soloist with Rowan's wind band (2016), wind ensemble (2017), and a featured artist at the International Women's Brass Conference (2017).
Amy also works to promote British brass band in North America and the advancement of women in brass. Her most recent scholarship includes a paper that was published in the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) Journal, “The Brass Band Bridge and J. Perry Watson: A Link to the Beginning of the North American British Brass Band Movement.” The paper was praised as being “probably the best history of the establishment of the British-brass band movement in North America” (William Berz, editor WASBE Journal). Additionally, she recently adjudicated the youth section of the North American Brass Band Association's championships in Fort Wayne, Indiana (2016). Amy, along with two of her colleagues, were honored to host the International Women's Brass Conference at Rowan University (2017).
Amy lives in Collingswood, New Jersey right outside of Philadelphia with her husband Adam and son Simon.
Amy has been building a career that combines her love for performing with her love for teaching music. She began teaching euphonium at Rowan University in 2012, where she also teaches music appreciation, coaches the tuba/euphonium quartet, works with the Atlantic Youth Brass Band and Rowan University Brass Band, conducts summer brass choir, and teaches private lessons on euphonium, baritone, and tuba to community members. She is also Senior Adjunct Professor of Music at Rowan College at Burlington County where she teaches music appreciation and euphonium. As a performer, Amy's current ongoing projects include playing solo euphonium in the Atlantic Brass Band (ensemble-in-residence at Rowan University) and Liberty Wind Ensemble, a professional wind ensemble outside of Philadelphia. Amy was recently a featured soloist with Rowan's wind band (2016), wind ensemble (2017), and a featured artist at the International Women's Brass Conference (2017).
Amy also works to promote British brass band in North America and the advancement of women in brass. Her most recent scholarship includes a paper that was published in the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) Journal, “The Brass Band Bridge and J. Perry Watson: A Link to the Beginning of the North American British Brass Band Movement.” The paper was praised as being “probably the best history of the establishment of the British-brass band movement in North America” (William Berz, editor WASBE Journal). Additionally, she recently adjudicated the youth section of the North American Brass Band Association's championships in Fort Wayne, Indiana (2016). Amy, along with two of her colleagues, were honored to host the International Women's Brass Conference at Rowan University (2017).
Amy lives in Collingswood, New Jersey right outside of Philadelphia with her husband Adam and son Simon.