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Amber Youell-Fingleton, alto, is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at Columbia University.  Her dissertation deals with Italian opera and court culture in Maria Theresia's Vienna.  Her other interests are American operatic reception, 17th-century English theater music, and performance theory. She is also a member of the Columbia Collegium Musicum, with whom she recently performed Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with period gesture and costume.  Amber received a BMus from the University of Utah in 2004, studying Music History & Literature and Vocal Performance. She studied voice with Marion Miller and was a member of the Utah Lyric Opera Ensemble under Robert Breault.  Previous vocal teachers include Sally Sanford, Susan Boren, Claine Robison, Mary Fox and Denise Walker. Amber has also studied piano with Marguerite Smith and Carol Waletzko.

Amber is originally from Simsbury, Connecticut, and now lives in Manhattan with her husband Tim.

Thanks to Tim Fingleton for all his help on this website!



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