“And with “Braided Together,” the second long player from the musician with a voice as sparkling as sunbeams…this is exactly what happened: The album sounds like a spontaneous blend of Americana, (Irish) folk, and country, almost as if the woman and her fellow musicians had gone into the studio to record the album directly, without multiple attempts.”

- Daniel Dressler, Unter-Ton

“Excellent songs”

- Americana UK

ABOUT

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Amanda DeBoer Bartlett is a Milwaukee-based classically trained singer and folk songwriter. She performs expansive, genre-bending concerts with original songs, traditional music, new works by living composers, and multi-modal improvisation. Her shows are an eclectic mix of old time-y psychedelic folk with banjo and guitar, classic storytelling, moody piano ballads, experimental vocalization, voice and electric guitar soundscapes, and sometimes opera. She performs as a soloist, with her duo partner Jesse Langen, or her classical ensembles Quince and Ensemble Dal Niente.

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Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, DMA is a soprano specializing in contemporary classical chamber music, vocal ensemble music, songwriting, and folk music. She is a founding member of Quince Ensemble, a contemporary and experimental treble voice ensemble, and Hasco Duo, an experimental improvisation and songwriting project. She is also a member of the award-winning and internationally recognized Ensemble Dal Niente. She regularly performs her original songs solo, with her duo partner Jesse Langen, or with full band at clubs and festivals around the country.

Bartlett maintains an active national and international performance schedule. Highlights include the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival in Washington, the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva in Mexico City, the Kody Festival in Poland, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Opera Omaha, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Her debut album of original songs, The Bones Still Glow, was released in February of 2023, and her sophomore album, Braided Together, was released June 6, 2025, both on Caillonia Records. Along with her solo work, Bartlett is featured on albums with Ensemble Dal Niente, Quince Ensemble, Holly Herndon, Deerhoof, Timothy Daisy, Hasco Duo, and more.

In 2014 she founded Omaha Under the Radar, an annual four-day experimental performance festival, year-round concert series, and educational program which presented over 400 individual artists in its nine seasons.

As a leading interpreter of new and experimental vocal works, she regularly works with living composers, commissioning, developing, and workshopping new works with extended vocal techniques, new notation, and other experimental practices. Her research centers on the pedagogy of nontraditional and extended vocal techniques in contemporary classical music, including extensive research on ingression phonation.

Born and raised in Omaha, NE, Bartlett received a Bachelor of Music from DePaul University, a Master of Music from the University at Buffalo, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Contemporary Music from Bowling Green State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts.