Amy Schumaker Bliss is a pioneering spirit: performer, educator, academic, conductor, author. - 4BarsRest
Dr. Amy Schumaker Bliss is a euphonium artist and music educator based in the Columbus area. 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 was mentored by Aaron VanderWeele.
Amy has built a career that combines her love for performing with her love for teaching music. She is currently in demand nationwide as a clinician, teacher, and euphonium soloist. During current social distancing measures, Amy uses technology for meeting with community ensembles, university ensembles, and studio classes around the world to work on concepts like sight-reading, music history, and repertoire. In 2020, she worked with students at West Chester University, Temple University, Howard University, Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Ohlone College, Dublin Youth Brass Band and presented at Sopra Metais Brazilian Brass Festival. She has an active Zoom studio with euphonium, tuba, and beginner brass and piano students. She teaches music theory both privately and in group settings and frequently holds music and art classes for her youngest students through Chambers Music Studio.
Amy's most recent teaching position was teaching euphonium at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey from 2012-2020, where she also taught music appreciation, coached the tuba/euphonium quartet, worked with the Atlantic Youth Brass Band and Rowan University Brass Band, conducted summer brass choir and played in the Atlantic Brass Band as solo euphonium. She was also Senior Adjunct Professor of Music at Rowan College at Burlington County for nine years where she taught music appreciation and euphonium.
Amy's performance projects include a recent solo CD, Couleurs en Mouvements, and she is featured on two of Atlantic Brass Band's CD's (The Spirit of Christmas and Metropolis). She was recently a featured soloist with Rowan University's wind band (Gordon Jacob's Fantasia), Rowan University's wind ensemble (Cosma Euphonium Concerto), and a featured artist at the International Women's Brass Conference (2017). She is a regular performer in Athena Brass Band, an all-star British Brass Band featuring women brass and percussion players from around the world.
Amy's most recent publications include two works about British brass bands: a children's book called "Amy's Brass Band", and a paper on the history of the British brass band movement in North America. The paper, “The Brass Band Bridge and J. Perry Watson: A Link to the Beginning of the North American British Brass Band Movement," was published in the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) Journal and 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). The children's book, "Amy's Brass Band," is surpassing all expectations of popularity and introducing the genre to a whole new generation of future musicians. "Amy's Brass Band" is available worldwide through Amazon, and in the US through Walmart and Target online.
Amy lives just outside of Columbus, Ohio with her husband Adam and two sons.
Amy has built a career that combines her love for performing with her love for teaching music. She is currently in demand nationwide as a clinician, teacher, and euphonium soloist. During current social distancing measures, Amy uses technology for meeting with community ensembles, university ensembles, and studio classes around the world to work on concepts like sight-reading, music history, and repertoire. In 2020, she worked with students at West Chester University, Temple University, Howard University, Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Ohlone College, Dublin Youth Brass Band and presented at Sopra Metais Brazilian Brass Festival. She has an active Zoom studio with euphonium, tuba, and beginner brass and piano students. She teaches music theory both privately and in group settings and frequently holds music and art classes for her youngest students through Chambers Music Studio.
Amy's most recent teaching position was teaching euphonium at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey from 2012-2020, where she also taught music appreciation, coached the tuba/euphonium quartet, worked with the Atlantic Youth Brass Band and Rowan University Brass Band, conducted summer brass choir and played in the Atlantic Brass Band as solo euphonium. She was also Senior Adjunct Professor of Music at Rowan College at Burlington County for nine years where she taught music appreciation and euphonium.
Amy's performance projects include a recent solo CD, Couleurs en Mouvements, and she is featured on two of Atlantic Brass Band's CD's (The Spirit of Christmas and Metropolis). She was recently a featured soloist with Rowan University's wind band (Gordon Jacob's Fantasia), Rowan University's wind ensemble (Cosma Euphonium Concerto), and a featured artist at the International Women's Brass Conference (2017). She is a regular performer in Athena Brass Band, an all-star British Brass Band featuring women brass and percussion players from around the world.
Amy's most recent publications include two works about British brass bands: a children's book called "Amy's Brass Band", and a paper on the history of the British brass band movement in North America. The paper, “The Brass Band Bridge and J. Perry Watson: A Link to the Beginning of the North American British Brass Band Movement," was published in the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) Journal and 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). The children's book, "Amy's Brass Band," is surpassing all expectations of popularity and introducing the genre to a whole new generation of future musicians. "Amy's Brass Band" is available worldwide through Amazon, and in the US through Walmart and Target online.
Amy lives just outside of Columbus, Ohio with her husband Adam and two sons.