Soloist · Teacher · Author
Amy Schumaker Bliss
Euphonium soloist, educator, and author — an RNCM-trained Besson artist as active writing and conducting for brass bands as she is performing on them.
| Nationality | American |
|---|---|
| Plays | Besson Prestige 2051 · Besson Performing Artist |
Dr. Amy Schumaker Bliss is an American euphonium and baritone artist, educator, and author whose career braids performing, teaching, conducting, and writing. She double- majored in euphonium performance and music education at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio (studying with Thomas Zugger), earned a master’s in euphonium performance at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester under Steven Mead and David Thornton (graduating with distinction), and in 2015 became Rutgers University’s first doctoral euphonium graduate.
As a soloist and clinician she is in demand nationally, having appeared with the Athena Brass Band, the San Francisco Brass Band, the Kent State and Rowan University wind ensembles, and the Lancaster Allegro Symphony, among others, and as a featured artist at the International Women’s Brass Conference (2017 and, in Mito, Japan, 2024). She released the solo album Couleurs en Mouvements (2019) and appears on two Atlantic Brass Band recordings, plays solo euphonium with the Dublin Silver Band and Athena Brass Band, and conducts the Dublin Youth Brass Band in Columbus. Her writing includes the children’s book Amy’s Brass Band and a WASBE Journal history of the North American British brass-band movement, and she co-hosts the New World Brasscast podcast. She maintains an international in-person and online studio and serves regularly as a competition adjudicator. She is a Besson Performing Artist and plays a Besson Prestige 2051.