Our congregation was blessed with beautiful music for our Easter service this year! A lovely drop-in choir and our own all-ages orchestra made the day so special! Check out the closing music from Godspell below.
Happy Easter! Happy Passover! Happy Spring! Thanks to all our merry music makers for this gift today! #daybyday #suus #easter #passover #spring #madisonct #ctshoreline #suusorchestra
Posted by Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society on Sunday, April 1, 2018
Amy Buckley,Music LeaderAmy received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Connecticut, where her study afforded her the opportunity to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She then went on to receive a Master of Music from The Juilliard School. This season, Amy made her debut as Music Director at the Ivoryton Playhouse in The Hundred Dresses and starred in The Music Man as Marian Paroo with Artful Living. Credits include Cecile (The Hundred Dresses /Ivoryton Playhouse), Antonia (Man of La Mancha/Ivoryton Playhouse), Mrs. Banks (Mary Poppins/Artful Living), Sandy (I’ll Be Home for Christmas/Ivoryton Playhouse), Coach/Ms. Roosevelt (The Bully /Ivoryton Playhouse), Despina (Così fan Tutte/Pocket Opera of NY), La Fée (Cendrillon/Aspen Opera Theater), Euridice (Orfeo/Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival) and Adele (Die Fledermaus /Lincoln Center). When not performing Amy serves as Music Director of the theater program at Walsh Intermediate School in Branford and is on the faculty of the Community Music School. Amy resides in Westbrook where she has a private voice studio and plays her favorite role of Mom to daughter, Viviana. Amy is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS).
Nick Stanford, PianistNick is a Haddam, CT native who earned his Bachelor of Arts in music from the University of Connecticut studying piano with Irma Vallecillo as well as his Bachelor of Science in mathematics. He then went on to graduate school in mathematics at Indiana University for four years, taking graduate coursework at the Jacobs School of Music while there. His favorite works of music are piano pieces from the late Romantic period in the French and Russian styles. The more obscure the piece, the better! Nick often serves as the Music Director in various community theater musical productions. Recent credits include Into the Woods (GetUp Stage Company), Thoroughly Modern Millie (White Rabbit Theater), and Chicago (GetUp Stage Company). Outside of music, Nick will always continue to be amazed by abstract mathematics, in particular number theory, but he is also cultivating interests in data engineering and analytics