Soprano and Violinist Samantha Burke, is a student of Amy Shoremount-Obra (The Metropolitan Opera, NY) at Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music (M.M) and Erica Kiesewetter (Concertmaster of The American Symphony, NY) (B.M.) from Bard College.  She also studied closely with renowned Hungarian musicologist Peter Laki, to develop  a senior thesis on the opera Otello from Desdemona’s point of view and later, a concert lecture series focused on making opera accessible to audiences.  She is a frequent scholarship recipient and has won awards in Georgia and New York competitions.