Amy Tate Williams is Pianist & Chorus Master for Nashville Opera. Since joining the company in August 1998, she casts and musically prepares all choruses and acts as rehearsal pianist for all mainstage productions, coaches Mary Ragland Young Artists, plays keyboard in the Nashville Opera Orchestra, and plays for auditions, fundraisers and outreach events.
Amy free-lances as Vocal Coach and Collaborative Pianist often in recital and competitions. In February 2015, Amy made her debut as Conductor and Stage Director for Middle Tennessee State University’s The Merry Widow. She is regularly invited to conduct Master Classes in area universities. The University of Memphis hired her to prepare a Puccini double-bill of opera in February 2017.
A native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, Amy holds degrees in Piano Performance from Western Kentucky University and Florida State University. She has been a coach accompanist for Glimmerglass Opera, Nevada Opera, Augusta Opera, and Des Moines Metro Opera, served two years as Music Director for OPERAIowa, and trained for two years in the Houston Opera Studio program at Houston Grand Opera. She has also directed elementary, middle and high school choral departments, taught private voice, piano and drama and led an acappella ensemble on a European tour.
Since 2003, Amy has served on the staff of the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts as Opera Director, preparing an original fully-staged production in three weeks with high school vocalists. She also accompanies choral concerts and vocal recitals.
Amy is a published composer of choral anthems with Beckenhorst Press and Abingdon Press. In 2010, she launched an online publishing company, RANDAMWILL Music, which promotes her print music and CD recordings. Her two children’s operas, Rumpelstiltskin and The Looking Glass, have been produced for educational tours by Nashville’s Opera On Tour, Des Moines Metro Opera’s OperaIOWA, and The University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
She lives in Brentwood with her husband and son.