Zerfliesse Mein Herze - Bach's St. John's Passion
Amy
Justman
Soprano
Soprano Amy Justman’s varied crossover career has spanned classic and contemporary musical theater, opera, oratorio, and everything in between. Recent highlights include playing Edith Corse Evans and covering the role of Alice Beane in Titanic at City Center Encores, her debut with Tulsa Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem, soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at New York City Ballet, and originating the role of Adrienne Weill in the world premiere of Double Helix at Bay Street Theater.
Highlights of previous seasons include the PBS Great Performances’ broadcast of Bernstein’s Mass with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, her principal debut with New York Philharmonic covering the Assistant in David Lang’s Prisoner of the State, Handel’s Messiah with Musica Sacra at Carnegie Hall, and her cabaret show with collaborator Jerry Steichen for Columbus Indiana Philharmonic's Cabaret at the Commons and for Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado.
Amy’s recent concert work includes Haydn's The Creation with Winston-Salem Symphony, Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living and Jubilate Deo at Carnegie Hall with Manhattan Concert Productions, Handel's Messiah with Symphoria, Hudson Valley Philharmonic and Glacier Symphony; Bach’s St. John Passion with Great Music in a Great Space, Mozart’s Missa Brevis in G with Choral Society of the Hamptons, Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Steamboat Symphony Orchestra, and Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Broadway Chamber Players. She has been the soprano soloist for Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer and solo cover for Stravinsky’s Les Noces with New York City Ballet; Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Great Music in a Great Space; John Fitz Rogers’ Sehnen with American Modern Ensemble at National Sawdust, and Mahler’s Symphony no. 4 with Broadway Chamber Players.
Amy made her Broadway debut in the 2006 revival of Company, performing the role of Susan as well as playing piano as part of the actor‐orchestra. Most recently, she covered and performed for both Jessie Mueller and Renée Fleming in the revival of Carousel. Other theatrical credits include In Transit, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, and Irving Berlin's White Christmas on Broadway; covering the role of Carlotta in both the Broadway and the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Phantom of the Opera; the world premiere of Unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at Paper Mill Playhouse; and Clara in the off-Broadway revival of Passion at Classic Stage Company.
She can be heard on the original revival cast recordings of Company and Carousel, Bernstein's Mass with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the jazz recording Songs for Pickles, Tania León's Grammy-nominated Inura, and voice work for Maestro, Hail, Caesar!, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Get Down and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She has also appeared on-camera as Adult Nicole Fosse in FX’s Fosse/Verdon, on Apple TV’s Dickinson, and Max’s The Gilded Age.
A former first prize winner of the Lotte Lenya Competition for the Kurt Weill Foundation, Amy received her MM from Manhattan School of Music and her BA from Yale University. She is a member of the Vocal Arts Faculty at Manhattan School of Music, an adjunct voice instructor for Marymount Manhattan College, and has taught master classes throughout the United States.