TEDxChemungRiver - Susan Amisano - Reaching Great Potential December 23, 2011

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Susan Amisano is well known in New York state's Southern Tier as a soloist and teacher. Ms. Amisano completed her Master's degree in Vocal Performance from SUNY Binghamton at Harpur College in December of 2009 and is a 1999 graduate of the Resident Artist Training Program at Tri Cities Opera in Binghamton, N.Y. Ms. Amisano has sung many leading roles with Tri Cities Opera (TCO), including Norma (Norma), Countess Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Mimi (La Boheme), Micaela (Carmen), and most recently, the mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors.

A frequent performer in the New York's Southern Tier, she has sung title roles in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Candide, The Medium and Hansel and Gretel with Ithaca Opera; as well as performances with the Summer Repertory Company of the Finger Lakes, including As the World Goes Round, Closer Than Ever, and Lili in The Secret Garden. Ms. Amisano has also sung the Countess Ceprano in Rigoetto with Glimmerglass Opera. Her numerous concert credits with the Elmira Symphony include Handel's Messiah, and his Israel in Egypt and Faure's Requiem. After graduation from college, Ms. Amisano taught music in the Binghamton/Elmira area for several years. In 1985, she opened her own studio of vocal and piano instruction, which has grown to nearly 50 students.

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