Geminiani: Violin Sonatas Op 5 / Steck, Möllenbeck, Rieger CD

Katy has been singing since she was a child, starting her career at school talent shows and singing in chorus, school musicals, and church choirs. She has a Bachelors from Alfred University (Alfred, NY) in Performing Arts with a voice emphasis, where she studied voice classically. Katy later lived in Vienna, where she immersed herself in music and studied voice and German. Singing with Anima, a medieval women's group based in Vermont, introduced her to the music of 12th c. German mystic Hildegard von Bingen. This music made Katy feel like she had come home, into her body and voice as a channel for Spirit, and singing Hildegard's music became her passion. A few years after this, she began composing her own devotional music, finding that when inspired spiritually, music often wells up within her. Since then, she has been composing and performing a blend of Hildegard's music and her own original pieces. Katy has participated in the recording of two medieval CDs and two Shape Note CDs, as well as one featuring her own devotional music, with a second featuring songs to the Divine Feminine on the way.

Amy started singing later in life, when she was in college at NYU as a dance major. She sang Neil Young songs in the stairwell and began to draw small crowds on the steps, which eventually spilled over into coffeehouses. She began teaching when she got a call from Omega Institute to lead a class in their summer program for staff. They wanted her to do sing-a-longs but Amy suggested sound and healing. Then in the late 1980's a woman called her up and asked Amy to teach her how to sing, which Amy agreed to try, and her career as a voice teacher was birthed. She finds helping others to midwife their connection to their voice, heart, and power to be one of the deepest and warmest, most inspiring journeys of her life. Since then, in addition to teaching voice, Amy has taught many workshops on singing and sound and healing, including starting a series of sacred space workshops called The Vocal Visionary Training, which include Vocal Visionary workshops, Building A Vocal Visionary Community: Sacred Performance Workshop, Finding The Voice Of The Feminine, and The Joy Of Harmony. Amy has penned and recorded numerous CDs in a wide variety of genres.

An active studio musician since arriving in Nashville, she is presently a member of the Nashville String Machine and she can be heard on many commercial recordings in many genres. Among her classical recordings, she is especially pleased with the Naxos recording of the complete Bachianas Brasilieras of Villa Lobos, with the Nashville Symphony; and most recently, the Nashville Symphony's "Made in America." Another Naxos recording, and all music of American composer, Joan Tower, it won three Grammy awards in 2008. On this first self-produced solo album, she hopes that in listening, you will feel the warmth and intimacy of her live performances. With the exception of the the two cello quartets (on which she plays all four parts) the musical selections are favorites from her repertoire. The settings of the hymn tunes are her own arrangements. She plays an old English cello, thought to be (because the label is torn out) of the Forster school in London, ca. 1820.