Amy Rosine Biography
Amy Rosine, Associate Professor of Music, teaches applied voice, vocal techniques, and serves as vocal coach for the K-State Players Broadway musicals. She holds degrees from University of Kansas (DMA), University of Missouri-Kansas City (MM), and Truman State University (BME). Voice teachers include Inci Bashar, Norman Paige and Kathleen Dawson.
An active recitalist, performing has taken her to the Čzech Republic, where she performed vocal recitals in Dobřichovice and Český Krumlov with pianist Jaroslav Šaroun, from the Music Academy of Prague. She has also performed in Mercatello sul Metauro, Italy, as a faculty member of International Opera Performing Experience. Rosine collaborates with Dr. Sandra Mosteller as the Sorores Duo, and together they present programs of music for soprano and clarinet. They have been featured performers at the Sigma Alpha Iota National Conventions in Orlando, Chicago and Phoenix, West Central Regional NATS Conference, and Great Plains CMS Conference. Rosine premiered 5 songs of E.E. Cummings, written for her by composer Robert Tucker.
Dr. Rosine has performed in a variety of venues including Civic Opera of Kansas City, Kansas City Lyric Opera Express, Kansas Concert Opera, Regal Opera (TX), Lyric Theatre of Dallas, Ft. Worth Opera, and Brownwood Regional Theatre. Opera roles include Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, the title role in The Merry Widow, Ann Putnam in The Crucible, Goodwife and Mary in The Wise Women, and Countess Almaviva inLe Nozze di Figaro. She has also performed with Opera in the Ozarks, St. Charles Music and Arts Festival and Lake Placid Institute Vocal Seminar. She is a past recipient of the Alpha Corrine Mayfield Award in Opera Performance from the National Federation of Music Clubs.
Along with vocal directing the K-State Broadway Musicals, Rosine has served as music director for area theatres, including Junction City Little Theatre, Columbian Theatre in Wamego and Marysville Area Community Theatre. Music directing credits include: The Boyfriend, Into the Woods, Legally Blonde, It's a Grand Night for Singing, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Fantastiks, Music Man and Nice Work if You Can Get It.
Dr. Rosine has given masterclasses and clinics throughout the United States and in Italy. She has served on the faculties of Texas Woman’s University, Howard Payne University, Rockhurst College, St. Mary University (KS), and also taught K-12 music in the Adair Co R-II school system in Missouri. Summer programs she has taught at include International Opera Performing Experience (Italy), Riverside Lyric Opera Adult Opera Program(CA) and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. She is the founder and co-director of the Flint Hills Vocal Academy. Professional memberships include National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), College Music Society, Phi Kappa Lambda, Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI) and The Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts (FUMMWA). Dr. Rosine also the Chancel Choir at First United Methodist Church in Manhattan, Kansas.
You are welcome to visit her professional website http://arosine.wixsite.com/amyrosine.
The following links are from a 2013 recital at the Hale Library at K-State, also featuring Tod Kerstetter, clarinet; Jacqueline Kerstetter, horn; and Amanda Arrington, piano.
Fair Robin I Love, from To an Absent Love by Kirke Mechem
Dear Husband, from To an Absent Love by Kirke Mechem