Amy Z. Cohen studied flute with Samuel Baron, Karl Kraber, and Julius Baker and received a Music and Performing Arts degree from Barnard College. Her active summer music festival appearances include Chautauqua, Vermont and the International Oceania Arts Festival. She has performed with noted orchestras, chamber ensembles and opera companies and has been a frequent soloist, recitalist and recording artist in the New York metropolitan area.

Ms. Cohen was a founding member of the award-winning flute quartet, "Femmes Four," which made its sold-out Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall debut as award winners of the prestigious Artists International auditions. It received a Residency Partnership Program Grant through Chamber Music America, bringing classical music to underserved children in New York. Ms. Cohen traveled to China with the ensemble, under the sponsorship of the Friends of the United Nations' Ambassadors for International Peace Day, where she performed for over 10,000 people in China's Grand Canyon.

Ms. Cohen's solo CD, "Blessings of Beauty: A Classic Collection of Judaic Gems by Kurt Weill, Salamone Rossi, Morton Gould, Billy Joel and David Amram," (recorded under the name Amy Ziegelbaum) was released on the Musical Tapestries label to international acclaim; the CD was featured in the Emmy award-winning documentary, "A Hidden Life," broadcast on PBS.