Biography
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Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, recitalist, curator, composer, and improviser, specializing in contemporary-classical repertoire. Trained as an operatic coloratura, Stephanie uses her voice as a mechanism of avant-garde performance art, creating “maniacal shifts of vocal production and character… like an icepick through the skull” (composer Jason Eckardt). She has been praised by Opera News Magazine for "her iconoclasm and fearless commitment to new sounds" and for her "impressive display of extended vocal techniques, in the honorable tradition of such forward-looking artists as Bethany Beardslee, Cathy Berberian and Joan La Barbara." Her work has been described as “stunning, harrowing, agonising, sonorous..." by The Observer, "divinely deranged" by the Herald Scotland, and that she “sings so expressively and slowly with ever louder and higher-pitched voice, that the inclined listener [has] shivers down their back and tension flows into the last row." (Halberstadt.de) She has received awards from the Concert Artist Guild, St. Botolph Club Foundation, the John Cage Orgel Stiftung in Halberstadt, Germany, and the Puffin Foundation. Stephanie was a featured TEDx Speaker for TEDxWaltham: Going Places.
Stephanie devours mammoth works of virtuosity and extended techniques with ease and creative insight, singing with an entire spectrum of vocal colors (including operatic style, straight tone, sputters and throat noises) and performing in the classical, jazz, avant-garde and interdisciplinary fields. She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium (New York City), Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland, Southbank Centre (London), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, National Sawdust (NYC), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the National Concert Hall (Dublin), the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), the Hidden Door Festival (Edinburgh), and the Casa da Música (Porto). She has collaborated with several leading new music ensembles and bands including the Riot Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Wavefield Ensemble, the City of London Sinfonia, Hebrides Ensemble, So Percussion, Red Note Ensemble, Talujon, Guerilla Opera, and Post Coal Prom Queen. |
A prolific recording artist, Stephanie released albums Quaking Aspen, Georges Aperghis' 14 Récitations, and Don't Add to Heartache, to international critical acclaim. Quaking Aspen was hailed by PopMatters.com as "a bold artistic statement that’s exciting and innovative... a magical, intense, and deeply satisfying journey." 14 Récitations was described as a "tour-de-force... sportive vocal adventure of impressive proportions," (Concerti.de), "performance art of the highest caliber," (PopMatters.com), and a record in which "virtuosity is complemented by total commitment and vivid imagination." (Bandcamp.com) Don't Add to Heartache was celebrated as "an impassioned exploration of sound, space, and the relationship between nature and humanity... a fiercely inventive body of work that urges listeners to consider their relationship with nature in an increasingly artificial world." Previous to these discs, she spearheaded Unaccompanied: Tiny Works for Quarantine, a project produced from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this project, she commissioned and premiered over 50 new works for solo voice by composers across the globe and released recordings of the works over four collections on Bandcamp. ClevelandClassical.com wrote that the collections "find composers thriving within the constraints of extreme brevity, and Lamprea carving sublime, beautiful, comic, and haunting scenes of isolation that come to life upon pressing play." Stephanie has also lent her voice to albums Becoming a Landscape (Juan Calderon), Music for First Contact (Post Coal Prom Queen), Postcards (Alistair MacDonald and Stephanie Lamprea) Clever Machines and Late Night Banter (Aaron Jay Myers), Someone Who Loves You Throws Me at You (Julia Werntz), and False Tongues (Niffin).
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An established multidisciplinary artist, Stephanie has collaborated as a soprano and composer with contemporary artist Jesse Jones to co-create Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon, a film installation presented at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham in partnership with the National Gallery in London. Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon received a five-star rating from the Observer, noting the "mesmerising film... The sound (and vision) is stunning, harrowing, agonising, sonorous and then garbled, stoppered, and running, as it seems, backwards." Stephanie has collaborated with video artist and photographer Oana Stanciu and composer Tom W. Green to co-create Anthropocenic Garden, a multidisciplinary exhibition for film, music, and dance, commissioned by and presented at the Hidden Door Festival. She has also collaborated with author and activist Jessica Gaitán Johannesson and sound artist Alistair MacDonald to co-create Soroche, a work for music, spoken voice, and film, commissioned by and presented at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She has performed recitations and vocal improvisations in Dora Garcia’s exhibition Love With Obstacles at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, MA, created choreographed performances of Georges Aperghis’ 14 Recitations at Roulette Intermedium and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and she lent her recorded voice and improvisations to Diemut Strebe’s The Prayer, a multimedia machine on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.
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As a passionate educator and speaker, Stephanie has taught and performed in residency for the University of California at Davis, City University of New York, Temple University, University of Leeds, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Clark University, Bronx Community College, University of Central Florida, Arkansas State University, Northern Arizona University, and the Young Women Composers Conference, where she has given masterclasses to voice students, workshopped and premiered new works for composition students, and has given lecture recitals on avant-garde repertoire. She has presented artistic research of the modern classical voice for the Shared Narratives Conference in Scotland, the EPARM Conference at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and the Xperimus Conference at the Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal.
Stephanie was born in New York and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where she worked with Maitland Peters and Lucy Shelton. She received additional vocal training from Dr. Julian Kwok in operatic performance and from Anne-Liis Poll in improvisation. Her mentors have include Sarah Maria Sun and Eunbi Kim, the latter through the bespoken mentorship program. Stephanie holds a degree as Doctor of Performing Arts from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and University of St Andrews, where she was supervised by Dr. Emily Doolittle, Dr. Laura Gonzalez and Jean Sangster. Stephanie has taught and performed in residency for universities across the United States and Europe including the University of California at Davis, Temple University, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the University of St Andrews, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She has presented her artistic research for the European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (London), the Xperimus Conference (Porto), and Performance Research Ireland, and she was a featured TEDx Speaker for TEDxWaltham: Going Places. Stephanie is currently the 2024-25 Digital Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, where she is supervised by Dr. Jules Rawlinson.
Stephanie was born in New York and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where she worked with Maitland Peters and Lucy Shelton. She received additional vocal training from Dr. Julian Kwok in operatic performance and from Anne-Liis Poll in improvisation. Her mentors have include Sarah Maria Sun and Eunbi Kim, the latter through the bespoken mentorship program. Stephanie holds a degree as Doctor of Performing Arts from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and University of St Andrews, where she was supervised by Dr. Emily Doolittle, Dr. Laura Gonzalez and Jean Sangster. Stephanie has taught and performed in residency for universities across the United States and Europe including the University of California at Davis, Temple University, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the University of St Andrews, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She has presented her artistic research for the European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (London), the Xperimus Conference (Porto), and Performance Research Ireland, and she was a featured TEDx Speaker for TEDxWaltham: Going Places. Stephanie is currently the 2024-25 Digital Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, where she is supervised by Dr. Jules Rawlinson.
Short Bio
Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist, specializing in contemporary classical repertoire. Trained as an operatic coloratura, she uses her voice as a mechanism of avant-garde performance art, creating “maniacal shifts of vocal production and character... like an icepick through the skull” (Jason Eckardt). She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium (New York City), Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland, Kings Place (London), Southbank Centre (London), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the National Concert Hall (Dublin), the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), the Hidden Door Festival (Edinburgh), and the Casa da Música (Porto). She has collaborated with leading new music ensembles and bands including the Riot Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, the City of London Sinfonia, Sō Percussion, and Post Coal Prom Queen.
An established multidisciplinary artist, Stephanie has collaborated as a soprano and composer with contemporary artist Jesse Jones to co-create Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon, a film installation presented at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham in partnership with the National Gallery in London. Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon received a five-star rating from the Observer, noting the "mesmerising film... The sound (and vision) is stunning, harrowing, agonising, sonorous and then garbled, stoppered, and running, as it seems, backwards." Stephanie has collaborated with video artist and photographer Oana Stanciu and composer Tom W. Green to co-create Anthropocenic Garden, a multidisciplinary exhibition for film, music, and dance, commissioned by and presented at the Hidden Door Festival. She has also collaborated with author and activist Jessica Gaitán Johannesson and sound artist Alistair MacDonald to co-create Soroche, a work for music, spoken voice, and film, commissioned by and presented at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
A prolific recording artist, Stephanie released albums Quaking Aspen, Georges Aperghis' 14 Récitations, and Don't Add to Heartache, to international critical acclaim. Quaking Aspen was hailed by PopMatters.com as "a bold artistic statement that’s exciting and innovative... a magical, intense, and deeply satisfying journey." 14 Récitations was described as a "tour-de-force... sportive vocal adventure of impressive proportions," (Concerti.de), "performance art of the highest caliber," (PopMatters.com), and a record in which "virtuosity is complemented by total commitment and vivid imagination." (Bandcamp.com) Don't Add to Heartache was celebrated as "an impassioned exploration of sound, space, and the relationship between nature and humanity... a fiercely inventive body of work that urges listeners to consider their relationship with nature in an increasingly artificial world."
Stephanie is currently the 2024-25 Digital Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her doctorate at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and her undergraduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music. Stephanie has taught and performed in residency for universities across the United States and Europe including the University of California at Davis, Temple University, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the University of St Andrews, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She has presented her artistic research for the European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (London), the Xperimus Conference (Porto), and Performance Research Ireland, and she was a featured TEDx Speaker for TEDxWaltham: Going Places. http://www.stephanielamprea.com/
Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist, specializing in contemporary classical repertoire. Trained as an operatic coloratura, she uses her voice as a mechanism of avant-garde performance art, creating “maniacal shifts of vocal production and character... like an icepick through the skull” (Jason Eckardt). She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium (New York City), Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland, Kings Place (London), Southbank Centre (London), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the National Concert Hall (Dublin), the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), the Hidden Door Festival (Edinburgh), and the Casa da Música (Porto). She has collaborated with leading new music ensembles and bands including the Riot Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, the City of London Sinfonia, Sō Percussion, and Post Coal Prom Queen.
An established multidisciplinary artist, Stephanie has collaborated as a soprano and composer with contemporary artist Jesse Jones to co-create Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon, a film installation presented at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham in partnership with the National Gallery in London. Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon received a five-star rating from the Observer, noting the "mesmerising film... The sound (and vision) is stunning, harrowing, agonising, sonorous and then garbled, stoppered, and running, as it seems, backwards." Stephanie has collaborated with video artist and photographer Oana Stanciu and composer Tom W. Green to co-create Anthropocenic Garden, a multidisciplinary exhibition for film, music, and dance, commissioned by and presented at the Hidden Door Festival. She has also collaborated with author and activist Jessica Gaitán Johannesson and sound artist Alistair MacDonald to co-create Soroche, a work for music, spoken voice, and film, commissioned by and presented at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
A prolific recording artist, Stephanie released albums Quaking Aspen, Georges Aperghis' 14 Récitations, and Don't Add to Heartache, to international critical acclaim. Quaking Aspen was hailed by PopMatters.com as "a bold artistic statement that’s exciting and innovative... a magical, intense, and deeply satisfying journey." 14 Récitations was described as a "tour-de-force... sportive vocal adventure of impressive proportions," (Concerti.de), "performance art of the highest caliber," (PopMatters.com), and a record in which "virtuosity is complemented by total commitment and vivid imagination." (Bandcamp.com) Don't Add to Heartache was celebrated as "an impassioned exploration of sound, space, and the relationship between nature and humanity... a fiercely inventive body of work that urges listeners to consider their relationship with nature in an increasingly artificial world."
Stephanie is currently the 2024-25 Digital Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her doctorate at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and her undergraduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music. Stephanie has taught and performed in residency for universities across the United States and Europe including the University of California at Davis, Temple University, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the University of St Andrews, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She has presented her artistic research for the European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (London), the Xperimus Conference (Porto), and Performance Research Ireland, and she was a featured TEDx Speaker for TEDxWaltham: Going Places. http://www.stephanielamprea.com/