Amelia Waldron

• National Honor Society member
• Member of local Red Cross chapter
• Mark Twain Italian Award recipient
• Accepted by audition into Fiorello LaGuardia’s vocal performance program
• Selected by audition into the ArtSmart program
• PS133 Valedictorian
• NYC STEM finalist for science fair
• Participant Brooklyn Borough Arts Festival
• Horse riding shows (ribbons & awards)
• Employment at Brooklyn Equine

Amelia Waldron is a 16-year-old rising Junior at Brooklyn Technical High School (BTHS), in her home borough of Brooklyn, New York. A National Honor Society member, and member of the BTHS Red Cross chapter, Amelia has been a member of the school’s varsity fencing team since freshman year. She has also participated in various clubs, such as Operation Smile, CSI and Finance, and is part of the four-year Leadership program, where she has served on the Events Committee, organizing multiple school-wide events. She is also an active volunteer at her former elementary school, P.S. 133, where she was valedictorian of her graduating class. Each school year, she leads prospective-student tours, assists at homecoming, and helps set up classrooms for the teachers.

Inspired by her mother’s performances, recordings, and Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from NYU, Amelia started on her own vocal training and performance path through the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Further encouraged by a musical theatre role in The Aristocrats at P.S. 133, she auditioned for and was accepted into Mark Twain Intermediate School for the Gifted & Talented’s Vocal Performance program. Despite the pandemic, she participated in three years of choir with live and virtual concert performances, and played a role in the only live theatrical performance produced during her middle school years, Matilda. She was recently invited to participate as an alumni guest singer at the school’s Winter Concert. Amelia has maintained her love of choir in high school, continuing as a Soprano I in the BTHS Concert Choir, and becoming one of only two freshmen selected for the ArtSmart foundation’s vocal program, receiving tuition-free weekly private lessons and performance opportunities.

While music theory and sight reading have been an integral part of her vocal training, it was as a young violinist (and occasional pianist) that Amelia first learned to read music. Having started at the age of three in the Suzuki violin program at Lucy Moses School/Kaufman Music Center, Lincoln Center, this is where she experienced her first musical solo and ensemble performances. She continued with private and ensemble lessons and performances, and spent several years at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music before fully diverting her musical efforts from violin to voice at the end of middle school.

Other interests have included tennis, martial arts, and dance, but her primary interest outside of school and music is horses. Amelia takes weekly horseback riding lessons, spends some time each summer at Frost Valley’s horse camp, and this past summer tried polo at Yale’s polo and equestrian center. At the beginning of 2023, Amelia was offered part-time employment caring for the horses and assisting in kids’ lessons at Prospect Park Stables, home to Brooklyn Equine where she takes her lessons.

Amelia loves speaking and singing in multiple languages, having learned Italian as a child, attended a dual-language French program throughout elementary school, and returned to Italian for middle and high school. She is also interested in science and math, especially genetics, medicine, and biomedical engineering.