“With consummate poise, limpid clarity, and faultless intonation” (Washington Classical Review), soprano Amy Nicole Broadbent has garnered recognition as a dynamic and versatile musical force. Amy has performed as a soloist for the Oregon Bach Festival, Staunton Music Festival, Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Washington National Cathedral, Washington Bach Consort, The Thirteen, and the Folger Consort. She created and recorded the role of Sebastian in Scott Ordway’s opera, The Outer Edge of Youth, acclaimed by Opera News (Critic’s Choice), Gramophone, and BBC Music Magazine. Other stage roles include Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Bastienne (Bastien und Bastienne), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Johanna (Sweeney Todd), La Statue Animée (Pygmalion), Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore) and Elsie (The Yeoman of the Guard). Amy won first-place in the Audrey Rooney Bach Competition (Kentucky Bach Choir) and the National Society of Arts and Letters’ Winston Voice Competition. She is a soprano vocalist and the Assistant Conductor of the U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters, the official chorus of the U.S. Navy, as well as a founding member of vocal quartet The Polyphonists. Amy holds degrees in both voice and conducting from the University of Maryland. amy-broadbent.com