Soprano and Violinist, Samantha Burke is the Founder and Director of BURKE MUSIC ACADEMY and teaches voice, strings, and piano. She is a student of Amy Shoremount-Obra (The Metropolitan Opera, NY) at Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music (M.M) and Erika Kiesewetter (Concertmaster of The American Symphony, NY) (B.M.) from Bard College. She is a frequent scholarship recipient and has won awards in Georgia and New York competitions. In the Summer of 2022, Samantha covered the role of Julie for Spoleto Festival’s world premiere of the Pulitzer Prize Winning opera, OMAR, by Rhiannon Gideon’s and Michael Abels. In 2021 Samantha premiered a Recital-Documentary called ‘Essential’.