Amanda Roswick

Amanda Roswick is an Artist Faculty Jazz Voice at the Osher School of Music, University of Southern Maine, within the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. She holds a Master of Music (MM) in Jazz Studies from the University of Northern Colorado and a Bachelor of Music (BM) in Music Education from the University of New Hampshire.

Her research and artistic focus centers on jazz historiography, vocal pedagogy, and performance techniques. Notably, she presented Gender and American Structuralism: a Study of Jazz Historiography at the 2022 Jazz Education Network Conference and plans to publish further work. Her artistic contributions include performances with the DownBeat Award-Winning Vocal Lab Ensemble, collaborations with renowned artists like Bobby McFerrin and Take 6, and recordings on albums such as Julie Koenig’s 2024 EP Intruder.

Awarded the prestigious DownBeat Award, Roswick emphasizes vocal health and body mapping techniques in her teaching. She has served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Northern Colorado and contributed to classical choral projects with 16th-century music under William Kempster. Future projects include publishing her own vocal jazz arrangements and advancing her research in jazz historiography.