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Profession headshot of Emily Romney Emily Romney is a professional singer with over thirty years successful experience as a studio voice teacher of professional and amateur adult singers. Ms. Romney has a background in choral conducting and choral singing, and extensive professional experience as a soloist and vocal chamber music performer. While on the faculty of the Longy School of Music of Bard College, she taught studio voice and developed an undergraduate and master’s degree curriculum for conservatory students, put together a music program for high school singers, initiated and created the conservatory level vocal pedagogy course "The Living Instrument and How It Works", and coordinated a vocal chamber music program.

She currently maintains a private voice studio in Cambridge, MA. and is on the faculty of the Powers Music School in Belmont, MA.

“The voice studio should be a comfortable place where enthusiasm and ongoing good work can mix with risk-taking, humor, and musical exploration. I encourage my students to develop a musical life beyond the studio and to pursue performance opportunities.”

Repertoire

Orchestral Repertoire
Composer	Work/s
J. S. Bach	St. John Passion
	St. Matthew Passion
	Magnificat
	Mass in b minor
Beethoven	Ninth Symphony
Britten	Rejoice in the Lamb
Handel	Messiah
	Samson
Haydn	St Nicholas Mass
	Salve Regina
Mozart	Requiem in d minor
Poulenc	Gloria
Schubert	Mass in A flat
	Mass in E flat
Stravinsky	Oedipus Rex
Operatic Repertoire
Composer	Work/s
Aldridge	Elmer Gantry (Mrs. Keely)
Arne	Thomas & Sally (Dorcas)
Britten	Noye’s Fludde (Mrs. Noye)
	The Beggar’s Opera (Polly Peachum)
Massenet	Werther (scenes) (Charlotte)
Menotti	The Medium (Mrs. Nolan)
	The Old Maid & the Thief (scenes) (Miss Pinkerton)
Mozart	Le Nozze di Figaro/scenes (Marcellina)
	Cosi fan tutte/scenes (Dorabella)
Sullivan	The Pirates of Penzance (Ruth)
	The Gondoliers (Fiametta)
Van Slyck	Judgement in Salem (Martha Corey) (premiere)
Verdi	Otello (scenes) (Emilia)

Recital & Vocal Chamber Music Repertoire
Composer	Work/s
J. S. Bach	Vergnüte Ruh (solo cantata 140)
	Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde (solo cantata 53)
Barber	Hermit Songs
	Dover Beach
Beethoven	Elegischer Gesang
	Schottische Lieder
Brahms	Zwei Gesänge für Alt, Viola und Klavier
	Liebeslieder Walzer, opus 52
	Neue Liebeslieder Walzer, opus 65
Britten	A Charm of Lullabies
Corigliano	The Cloisters
Copland	As it Fell upon a Day
Debussy	Trois Ballades de Francois Villon
Handel	Neun Deutsche Arien
	Pastorella vagha bella
Haydn	Arianna a Naxos
Hoiby	Bermudas
Honegger	Trois Psaumes
Lang	Nonsense Rhymes of Edward Lear
Mahler	Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Martin	Trois Chants de Noël
Monteverdi	Exulta Filia
Moussorgsky	Songs of the Nursery
Poulenc	Litanie á la Vierge Noire
Ravel	Five Greek Folksongs
Schumann	Liederkreis, opus 39
Stravinsky	Three Shakespeare Songs
Telemann	Hirt und Bishof
	Ihr Volker, hört
Van Slyck	Elegies (premiere)

And numerous other solo works, songs, song cycles, duets, quartets and other vocal chamber music literature including pieces by Beach, Chanler, Chausson, Cherubini, Duke, Fauré, Ives, Mendelssohn, Purcell, Rorem, and Schubert.