Justina Golden, mezzo-soprano, has sung, taught, composed and conducted through her Profound Sound Voice Studio in Florence since 1986. She has been teaching voice at Smith College since 2014. Her singing career spans contemporary folk music, early music, Celtic, jazz and classical music performances here and abroad. In addition to performing with her own Amiable Consort, she has been a member of the Illuminati Vocal Arts Ensemble. She has performed as a soloist with the Arcadia Players, the Brattleboro Chamber Singers, the Da Camera Singers, PanOpera, the South Hadley Chorale, the Smith College Orchestra and Chorus and the Tuesday Morning Music Club. She is the Voice Faculty for Dar Williams’ summer songwriting retreat series, “Writing a Song that Matters,” drawing beginning to professional songwriters for week-long intensives. She has made three recordings, “Flos Regalis (Royal Flower),” “Rhythms, Rhymes and Tides” and “So Strong.” She is a graduate of Amherst College, B.A. cum laude and received her Masters Degree in Voice and Opera from the Yale University School of Music.