Amy Hartsough, originally from Madison, Wisconsin, received her Masters of Music Degree in 2007 from the North Carolina School of the Arts' A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute, where she is currently pursuing her Professional Artist Certificate as a student of Dr. Marilyn Taylor.  At NCSA, she has performed the roles of Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo, Public Opinion in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, Dame Martha Schwerlein in Gounod's Faust, and Elizabeth in Kirke Mechem's workshop premiere of Pride and Prejudice.  Ms Hartsough especially enjoyed the Fletcher Institute's Outreach program, where she has performed the roles of Hansel, Mother, and the Witch in Steven LaCosse's adaptation of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. 

Ms. Hartsough received a Bachelor of Music Performance with honors in Pipe Organ and Voice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also intensively studied composition, piano, and classical guitar. At UW-Madison, she was awarded the Margaret Rupp Cooper Scholarship, which is given on the basis of musical potential and talent. She was also awarded the Phi Kappa Phi Summer Fellowship scholarship to study pipe organ in Pistoia, Italy. 

Ms. Hartsough studied opera and musical theater at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England. There, she worked with Ms. Johanna Peters, Dame Sarah Walker, and Mr. Robin Bowman. She performed in scene programs across London as the title roles in Carmen and Alcina, the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, and Mallika in Lakme, as well as the mezzo solo of Charpentier's Mass in C Minor at Westminster Abbey. 

Ms. Hartsough has performed several art song recitals in Switzerland, Holland, Germany and France, and also produced and performed scholarship concerts to fund her travels abroad. Her teachers in Madison included Prof. Bettina Bjorksten-Orsech, Prof. Lois Fisher, and Ms. Kitt Reuter-Foss.