Mezzo soprano Amy Pickering has blended a career of opera, operetta, musical theater and concert work, and has performed leading roles with such companies as Central City Opera and the Colorado Symphony, Grant Park Music Festival, Light Opera Works, L'Opera Piccola, Muddy River Opera Company, the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Favorite roles include Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the Muse/Nicklausse in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Phoebe in Yeomen of the Guard, the title role in Iolanthe, Lucy Harris in Jekyll and Hyde, Molly Gray in Girl Crazy, among others. For her performance as Princess Rosemarie in the U.S. premiere of Kalman's Duchess of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune declared, "Amy Joan Pickering not only displayed an appealing voice, she turned the stick-figure character into a person." Concert work includes concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall and at the Ravinia Festival, Mozart's Requiem and Mass in C Minor, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Handel's Messiah, Ezio, Saul, and Israel in Egypt. Amy is a professional member of both the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Grant Park Symphony Chorus. She has performed with Chicago a cappella. Amy holds a Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University and a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University.