About Amuse
Amuse is an ensemble of 12-16 highly skilled women formed in the fall of 2002 by Lee Ryder. As a small ensemble, Amuse offers singers an opportunity to work in a setting where every voice matters. Everyone’s musical conrtibution—whether in the blend, intonation, entrances, cutoffs, or enunciation—makes a very real contribution to the quality of the performance. It's a big challenge and it has enormous rewards. More >
Meet our New Conductor
Sharon Bjornsal Lavery
A native of Clifton, New Jersey, conductor and pianist Sharon Bjorndal Lavery is an Assistant Chorus Master and Children's Chorus Director at New York City Opera and has helped prepare over 50 operas. In addition she has prepared choruses for 6 summers of Bard SummerScape productions as well as the 60-voice Concert Chorale of New York for an Avery Fisher Hall performance with the American Symphony Orchestra of Shostakovich's Babi yar Symphony. More >
Amuse, Too
Amuse, Too is a group of 6-8 singers who perform more intimate programs three times a year without a conductor. Singers for this ensemble are drawn from the ensemble as well as from outside.
Our debut performance was a program of works featuring texts by Shakespeare with actor Carl Jaynes reading the texts and whistler Steve Herbst joining us for one piece.
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