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American mezzo-soprano Stephanie McGuire enjoys performing in a diverse range of venues-- from opera houses to recital halls to jazz clubs. In June 2011, Stephanie performed Bizet and Bernstein with Maestro Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra at Symphony Hall in Boston. In recent years, she has covered and performed solo roles for New York City Opera, on the mainstage at Lincoln Center and for the VOX festival of contemporary music. On the New York City Opera mainstage, she has covered Mamma Lucia (Cavalleria Rusticana) and participated as a chorister in Margaret Garner, Cavalleria Rusticana, and Antony and Cleopatra. She has also performed operatic roles with the Boston Classical Orchestra, Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, and Gotham Chamber Orchestra; her roles include Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Dame Quickly (Falstaff), Emilia (Otello), Dido and the Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas), Gertrude (Roméo et Juliette), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia), and La Maestra delle Novizie (Suor Angelica).
Stephanie’s upcoming engagements include Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina with New York City’s Satori Opera on September 9, 2011 and Third Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with The Muses Project in Hot Springs, Arkansas on September 23, 2011. Her one-woman show exploring the relevance of classical music to all communities, funded by the Queens Council on the Arts, premieres December 9, 2011. During the 2012-2013 season, her calendar includes recitals at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Johns Hopkins University, and the California Institute of Technology.
Highlights of Stephanieʼs 2010-11 season included excerpts of Tania León ’s Scourge of Hyacinths with Remarkable Theater Brigade at Carnegie Hall and Jazz Nativity at B.B. King’s in Times Square. In August 2010, she joined the Riverside Choral Society Chamber Singers for Handelʼs L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato at the Mostly Mozart Festival with Mark Morris Dance Group, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and conductor Jane Glover.
During the 2009-10 season, she appeared for the first time in Jazz Nativity at Birdland, alongside myriad legends including Slide Hampton, Steve Turre, Candido, and the late Benny Powell. Other highlights of Stephanie’s 2009-10 season included the role of Mona in Ellen Craft: A New American Opera at The Cell Theater (under the baton of David Loud) and the 2010 Winter Tour of the American Spiritual Ensemble, a group of accomplished soloists featured on PBS.
An avid interpreter of sacred works, Stephanie has sung Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony with the Key West Symphony Orchestra, Rachmaninoff’s Vespers with the Boston Choral Ensemble, Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Arlington Street Chamber Players, and Messiah with the Belmont Open Sings Orchestra. Other oratorio roles include Bach’s Johannes Passion, Matthäus Passion, Magnificat in D, and B-minor Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, and Rossini’s Stabat Mater.
From the art song repertoire, Stephanie particularly enjoys Schubert, Schumann, Mahler, Falla, Britten, Barber, and African-American composer Margaret Bonds. She last appeared in recital in March 2010, with pianist Louis Menendez at the Bechstein Centre in New York City. Twice she has offered art songs and oratorio excerpts as a part of Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann’s Entertaining Science series at the Cornelia Street Café in Manhattan. Combining recital work and arts activism, Stephanie has raised funds for Catholic Workers’ Free Breakfast, Remarkable Theater Brigade opera company, outreach efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans, and Sister’s Uptown Bookstore in Harlem. In March 2010, she was awarded the 2010 Individual Artist Initiative grant by the Queens Council on the Arts, in support of her community activist work.
Stephanie earned a Master of Music degree from the Longy Conservatory, where she was awarded the Rosenbaum Medal, given yearly to the most outstanding Longy graduate. Before becoming a singer, Stephanie earned an S.B. in Biology from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics from the University of Oxford.
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