Amy Briggs has established herself as a leading interpreter of the music of living composers, while also bringing a fresh perspective to music of the past. She recorded three volumes of David Rakowski’s Piano Etudes on Bridge Records to much critical acclaim. Based in Chicago, she is a featured soloist and chamber musician on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW series, where she has worked with composers such as Simon Bainbridge, Pierre Boulez, Oliver Knussen, David Lang, Tania Léon, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Augusta Read Thomas. In the 2005-2006 season, she premiered Knussen’s A Fragment from Ophelia’s Last Dance for solo piano. She was awarded a stipend prize at the 2000 Darmstadt Internationale Fereinkurse für Neue Musik.

The Chicago Tribune has called “extraordinary” Briggs’s “mastery of what lay on the dense, printed page and beyond,” and the Chicago Sun-Times called her a “ferociously talented pianist.” Classics Today said of volume one of the Rakowski Etudes project, Briggs "does a splendid job projecting the music's wit, and her unflappable virtuosity makes even the densest writing sound effortless... a marvelous disc that piano fanciers should snap up without hesitation.” In addition, the New York Times praised her recent recording of Augusta Read Thomas’s six Piano Etudes as “elegant” and “precisely shaded.”

Amy Briggs has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. In 1993, she was selected by the United States Information Agency to tour Africa and South Asia as a United States Artistic Ambassador. Her highly acclaimed concerts combined traditional repertoire with contemporary American music. Today, her recital programs connect composers from all eras and nationalities. She has performed with the Callisto Ensemble, the Chicago Contemporary Players, Chicago Pro Musica, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Klang, and the Empyrean Ensemble, and as an extra keyboardist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has also been a prizewinner in the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition and the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition.

Amy Briggs has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, New Hampshire Philharmonic, and the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka, among others, and her live and recorded performances have been featured on radio stations around the United States and Europe. Recent performances include the New York Philharmonic’s Day of Berio in Lincoln Center, solo and chamber performances with Grammy-award-winning eighth blackbird at the 2009 Ojai Festival in California, and performances with Ursula Oppens and the Mark Morris Dance Company in Chicago, Toronto, Washington D.C. and Auckland, New Zealand. Recently released recordings include George Flynn’s American City, a concerto for piano and wind ensemble, on Southport Records, and a disc of multi-piano works of Edgar Varèse and Morton Feldman for Wergo. Upcoming engagements include the MITO Festival in Milan, Italy, and the Keys to the Future Festival in New York.  Ms. Briggs earned her Doctor of Music degree at Northwestern University, where she studied with Ursula Oppens.  She was recently appointed Director of Chamber Music and Lecturer in Music at the University of Chicago.  Ms. Briggs is a Steinway Artist.