Amy Stephen received her B.Mus. from UBC in 1992, where she studied voice and choral conducting with Professor James Fankhauser. She had the privilege of singing with the University Singers and the University Chamber Singers while she was enrolled at UBC. Soon after her UBC graduation, Amy began directing community and church choirs, and over the years has spent time singing in such diverse vocal ensembles as the Vancouver Cantata Singers, musica intima, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and jazz quartet Voca Java. Amy is also a pianist and multi-instrumentalist and toured internationally for many years with celtic funk band "Mad Pudding". She currently performs with Vancouver-based klezmer band Tzimmes, world music ensemble "Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra" and her husband, Persian traditional singer Amir Haghighi. Amy is a published choral composer and arranger, and has recently been working as an educator, teaching in schools throughout the Lower Mainland. Amy loves the diversity of the human family and the music that reflects that diversity, and she brings all her experience enthusiastically to her choirs.
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