"Amy Porter masterfully guides musicians to transcend fear, integrating emotional resilience and physical awareness into a transformative journey toward empowered performance."
Aaron Dworkin, MacArthur Fellow, educator
For Performing Artists and Educators
Jeanne Baxtresser Former Principal Flutist, New York Philharmonic
Amy Porter's remarkable book, Anatomy of Sound, offers a wonderfully practical and valuable guide to today's musician building a career. Ms Porter is able to draw on her stellar career as a celebrated virtuoso flutist and preeminent teacher to offer a wealth of information and inspiration, with heartfelt and caring words of wisdom in all areas. She also gives the reader new ways to face the age old challenges we all face, at any age, as performing musicians. This book is a gift to us all!!
Stanford Olsen, tenor: Metropolitan Opera, Professor of Voice and Oratorio, University of Michigan
"Amy Porter does it again! Through mind-expanding concepts, rock solid technical advice, and a lifetime of experience as both performer and teacher,
Professor Porter weaves a lyrical tapestry of prose which simultaneously focuses and liberates the inner artist in pursuit of technical mastery and the expression of the Self. Chapter Four: "Steps" ought to be required study for anyone who creates sound with breath."