Amber Scherer

Amber 진미 Scherer is a pianist based in New York City. She hopes to broaden accessibility in the arts through performance, programming, and pedagogy. Outside of music, she loves walking the NYC parks, cooking Korean food, and playing with her roommate’s cat, Doja.

As NYC Co-Director for Vision Possible, Scherer helps fundraise for local organizations and foster meaningful connections between performers and their communities. Scherer’s co-director Jumi Lee Amnott and VP founder Jarod Yap are close friends, collaborators, and classmates from Juilliard. Over the past season, they organized concerts honoring Korean musical heritage, Black History Month, and AAHPI Heritage Month. They plan to start a Young Artist Series and competition next year to highlight young talented musicians in the city.

Scherer has also served on faculty at Brooklyn Music School for five years, working with students in private lessons, group piano, and outreach programs. 

Over the past few summers, Scherer attended various programs on fellowship, including the Tanglewood Music Center, SongFest, Classic Lyric Arts, and Music Academy of the West. This past summer, she and cellist Mia Kim Bernard were winners of Music Academy’s Duo Competition.

Scherer has collaborated extensively with soprano Kerrigan Bigelow, after the two bonded over their passion for music about or by women. They have worked and performed together as New Music Fellows at Songfest (2023), Juilliard Honors Recital winners (2024), semifinalists in the Young Concert Artists Competition (2025), and Fellowship winners with the Federation of Art Song (2024-25). This past spring, they presented a series of semi-staged performances of Poulenc’s one-woman opera, La voix humaine, paired with Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder, under the direction of George R. Miller.

Scherer also performs regularly with cellist Lydia Rhea. During the 25-26 season, the pair performed in the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, Fidelio in London, the BLANC Gallery Series, and at LAMP in Nova Scotia.

Her work with these collaborative partners has fostered a love of new music and programming composers outside the typical canon. She recently played Lincoln Center x New Latin Wave’s Composer Portrait of inti figgis-vizueta and premieres of works by Vincent Zhang and Gabriel Henrion. Next season, she will collaborate with composer and singer Stephanie Leotsakos and flautist Emily Duncan on a new song cycle. Her partner Charles Berofsky is composing a new cycle, as well, on poetry by Michaelangelo for her and tenor Evan Katsefes.

Scherer has obtained Bachelor’s degrees in Piano Performance and Psychology from Oberlin College, a Master’s in Collaborative Piano from The Juilliard School, and began her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) at Juilliard last fall. She studies at Juilliard with Jonathan Feldman and plans to write a dissertation on mental health in conservatory education.