Faculty and Staff
Amy Chinnery-Valmassei
Director, Summer Ringers Academy
Kansas City
Amy Chinnery-Valmassei has been an enthusiast for handbells since 1984, when she became a youth member of the St. Paul Ringers. In the early 1990s she rang with the Handbell Choir of St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church in Rochester, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, participating in community bell events and studying advanced techniques and solo ringing.
She was appointed director of St. Paul Ringers in 2005. In 2019 she was appointed a member of the select civic ensemble Kansas City Bronze, and she now serves as Music Director of the Summer Ringers Academy.