Amanda Huntleigh
Dr. Amanda Huntleigh serves as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Clarke University, and is Artistic Director of the Dubuque Chorale. Huntleigh has conducted choirs touring in Chile, Iceland, Italy, and Latvia, and works with youth and adult choirs across the United States. She is thankful for her conducting mentors, Drs. Lisa A. Billingham, Geoffrey Boers, and Giselle Wyers, and her movement mentors, Colleen Culley and Cadence Whittier.
Huntleigh is the co-author of Concerts Decoded: Listening Like You Mean It, now in its second edition, and a contributing chapter author in Colleen Wahl’s Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies: Contemporary Applications. The bulk of her research addresses the communicative power of conducting gesture for choristers, using components of Laban Movement Analysis. To support her quantitative conducting research, Huntleigh earned her certification as a Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst in January 2016 through Integrated Movement Studies. In 2017, she co-founded the Laban Bartenieff Conducting YouTube Channel featuring original body-based conducting instructional videos with fellow CLMA conductor, Dr. Lisa A. Billingham. Huntleigh is also an advocate for cross-disciplinary, collaborative performances, and takes a particular interest in early American repertoire and culture.
Huntleigh holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Washington, a Master of Music degree in conducting from George Mason University, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Wartburg College. Earlier in her career, she taught choral, instrumental, and general music in Illinois, Virginia, and Delaware public schools.