Soprano Amanda Sidebottom is known for her “luminous”, clear tone and versatile musicianship. Based in New York City, she is an active soloist, choral singer, and chamber musician, performing music from Renaissance polyphony to newly-commissioned works. Amanda has performed solos with the Mark Morris Dance Group under Mark Morris (Vivaldi Gloria, Bach Jesu meine Freude), the American Classical Orchestra (Handel Messiah), and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine under Kent Tritle (Scarlatti Stabat Mater, Charpentier). This season, Amanda will be heard with her lute duo Well-Tuned Words in recitals in New York and Boston, as well as on tour in Milan, Paris, and Amsterdam. She collaborates frequently with early music chamber ensembles The Soul's Delight and Brooklyn Baroque, this season appearing in concerts in Washington, D.C., upstate New York, and in upper Manhattan at the historic Morris Jumel Mansion. A founding member of Etherea Vocal Ensemble, she can be heard on the group's debut album Ceremony of Carols, which charted on both iTunes and Billboard Classical, and their newest release Hymn to the Dawn.

An avid proponent of historical performance, she has worked with such luminaries as William Christie, Ellen Hargis, Stephen Stubbs, and Grant Herreid and has been invited to participate in workshops in Vancouver, Seattle, and Boston. She has also performed in fringe concerts at early music festivals in Boston and Berkeley with Well-Tuned Words, the New York Continuo Collective, and the award-winning Ensemble Lipzodes. As a founding member and now artistic director of the chamber choir Conflitti di voci, she has sung acclaimed performances of major oratorio works by Bach and C.P.E. Bach with The Grand Tour Orchestra.

Sought after as a choral singer, Amanda can be heard in several ensembles, including Yale Choral Artists, which she in their 2012 debut season, including collaborations with William Christie and the Mark Morris Dance Group. She returns this year for an all Brahms concert and Rachmaninov Vespers. She has sung with Holy Trinity Lutheran's Bach Choir on their Sunday Vespers series as well as the Trinity Choir in concert and on their Bach@One series and is a member of the choir at St. Mary the Virgin, Times Square. She will join Santa Fe Desert Chorale for the first time for their summer 2013 season.

Opera credits include The Child in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortileges, Belinda in Dido & Aeneas, and Cupid in John Blow’s Venus & Adonis. Amanda holds degrees in early music and vocal performance from Indiana University and DePauw University.