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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.”

Vocal Chamber Music

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Vocal Chamber Music offers solo singers one of the most musically challenging and delightful of all performance experiences: the opportunity to sing in small ensembles with other solo voices, one on a part. Early in her career as a performer, Emily Romney was a founding member of The Cambridge Quartet, a mixed vocal quartet that sang at the National Museum of Art in Washington, DC, premiered Judgement in Salem at the historic Peabody Essex Museum in Salem and performed at many college campuses, museums and on concert series.

Emily Romney is an experienced vocal chamber music coach. As a teacher, she has championed this wonderful music by singing with her students, coaching them and organizing vocal chamber music courses and performances. A month–long summer Vocal Chamber Music course which she organized in July 2010, completed its seventh season in July 2016.

Singers at Longy concert in July 2010 Click here for sample programs from two VCM class concerts.