Press
"...her crystalline soprano [is] as controlled as the marine exhalation is wild... she is a solo prima donna. At times, she sings in harmony with her identical twin. But she also multiplies to become a female collective, at once Amazonian army, Greek chorus and Baroque choir... Then Lamprea’s voice starts to fracture. Ultimately she and her sisters are so enraptured they could be speaking in tongues."
(Rachel Spence, Financial Times, May 2024)
https://www.ft.com/content/603254be-d65b-446e-ade8-013d0a0c2f5a
"...the heart of Jones’s conception is a mesmerising film of Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea... The sound (and vision) is stunning, harrowing, agonising, sonorous and then garbled, stoppered, and running, as it seems, backwards."
(Laura Cumming, The Observer, May 2024)
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/12/artemisia-in-birmingham-jesse-jones-mirror-martyr-mirror-moon-dion-kitson-rue-britannia-review-reshaping-art-history
"Stephanie Lamprea’s performance tak[es] the work to the edge of hysteria... clearly inhabiting every particle of the score, her performance was Expressionist with a capital E, with everything pushed to extremes."
(Andrew Clements, The Guardian, July 2024)
www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/10/spitalfields-festival-hebrides-ensemble-lamprea-review-schoenberg-pierrot
"...Lamprea’s symphony of sporadic gasps, intricate vocal runs and poetic monologues to create an album that is equal parts urgent and indulgent..."
(Jack Faulds, The Skinny, March 2024)
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interviews/spotlight-on-stephanie-lamprea-tom-w-green
"...the singer evokes the text with a continuous and restless stream of songs, speech, whisper, trills, sighs and other in- and out-breath vocal techniques across a wide dynamic and octave range. Words emerge and disappear, some audible, some not. It is an evocative, stirring and yearning concoction, demanding careful control and dexterity from Lamprea, as well as serious expressive energy."
(Simon Barrow, Edinburgh Music Review, February 2024)
https://www.edinburghmusicreview.com/reviews/doubleportrait-eca
"'Don't Add To Heartache' is not just an album, but a profound experience... Lamprea's voice leades us through a sonic jungle, accompanied by Green's masterful compositions. The combination of beauty and vulnerability makes this album a haunting work."
(Alexander Möll, AM:plified Magazine, February 2024)
https://amplified-mag.de/reviews/stephanie-lampreas-dont-add-to-heartache-eine-natur-odyssee-zwischen-klang-und-chaos
"Lamprea’s stunning vocal acrobatics that are both melodic, flowing and often are used like an instrument and lets us know that this will be no typical a cappella listen... A Colombian-American artist who delivers classical music in very unorthodox ways, Lamprea manipulates timbre and dramatic flair for this truly unique record that you could never listen to just once."
(Tom Haugen, Take Effect, July 2023)
https://takeeffectreviews.com/july-2023-1/2023/7/6/stephanie-lamprea
"The ensemble cuts between Stephanie Lamprea’s radiant soprano song and recordings of interviews with a focus group of 25 neurodivergent people... The soprano’s wrists are wrapped in gloves with sensors that convert her movement to MIDI-data, allowing her to adjust the reverb of the sound through gesture. The effect is unlike anything most have experienced in a concert hall. It is transfixing."
(Ellen Wilkinson, The Upcoming, May 2023)
https://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2023/05/16/city-of-london-sinfonia-divergent-sounds-at-queen-elizabeth-hall-live-review/
"The young soprano achieves to 'humanize' the stress and schizophrenia present in the music, navigating them with naturalness and spontaneity due to the cycle's complex emotional landscape... With this album, Lamprea demonstrates that she not only has a solid vocal technique and great musical intelligence, but she also possesses ambition, courage and a curiosity that, in view of her other projects, seems insatiable; a set of aptitudes that, if she continues like this, augurs a very promising future for her."
(Jesus Castañer, Scherzo España, March 2023)
PDF version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cOOTVoyPkMhbHane6fvcdVHsS29vnBBq/view?usp=sharing
"Lamprea ventures onto the highly virtuosic black-ice of whispering, whistling, breathing, hissing, screaming, and (a few) sung notes. Her tour-de-force is a sportive vocal adventure of impressive proportions."
(Concerti.de, March 2023)
www.concerti.ch/rezensionen-ch/stephanie-lamprea-aperghis-14-recitations/
"Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea goes all out in this forceful new account, where her virtuosity is complemented by total commitment and vivid imagination."
(Peter Margasak, Bandcamp.com, March 2023)
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemporary-classical/the-best-contemporary-classical-on-bandcamp-february-2023
"Around Higham’s honeyed lullaby coil the post-human pipes of Stephanie Lamprea, a soprano trained in the high-flying ululations of operatic coloratura... Lamprea’s extraordinary vocals recall that most pioneering of electronic musical instruments, the theremin..."
(She Makes Music, February 2023)
https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/new-music/post-coal-prom-queen-are-contacted-by-aliens-on-new-single-wheeling-through-the-void/
"This is not simply music; it’s performance art of the highest caliber. There is singing, shouting, screaming, laughing, all manner of vocal emotion... Lamprea, a fearless genius of a performer, is constantly moving the goalposts and redefining modern music by tackling the most challenging compositions with bravura and passion."
(PopMatters.com, February 2023)
https://www.popmatters.com/stephanie-lamprea-14-recitations-review
"She's giving us vocal gymnastics in some of the most fiendish music ever written for solo voice... Incredible Colombian American Soprano Stephanie Lamprea getting right under the skin of the first of the 14 Recitations by Georges Aperghis... tapping into the extreme physicality and explosive expressiveness of that music."
(BBC Radio 3, February 2023)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001j4rn
"Stephanie Lamprea threw caution to the wind, pushing her voice to the far fringes of her formidable technique throughout an eclectic program of relatively short, minimalistic works which were often bracing, sometimes downright scary, other times immersively atmospheric or very funny."
(New York Music Daily, SEPTEMBER 2022)
https://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/stephanilamprea/
“Stephanie Lamprea, a Colombian–American soprano, demonstrates her iconoclasm and fearless commitment to new sounds right out of the gate…It’s an impressive display of extended vocal techniques, in the honorable tradition of such forward-looking artists as Bethany Beardslee, Cathy Berberian and Joan La Barbara.”
(Opera News, June 2022)
https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2022/6/Recordings/Stephanie_Lamprea__Quaking_Aspen.html
PDF version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ubU2D8TYhLDoA6UIyS8lVqS2V9mOEzyN/view?usp=sharing
"Quaking Aspen showcases Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea’s incredible range. The new works on the album, which were composed for Lamprea and highlight poetry by female writers from the 19th through 21st centuries, feature everything from exquisite melodies to jagged-edged squeals to ominous hums. The focal point throughout is Lamprea’s vocals: She effortlessly switches tones and styles on every track, painting theatrical, detailed pictures that only need one thing to feel vivid—her voice."
(The Road to Sound, February 2022)
https://theroadtosound.com/2022/02/10/january-2022-in-experimental-music/
"On her debut solo album Quaking Aspen, Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea makes a bold artistic statement that’s exciting and innovative... a startlingly gifted soprano..."
(PopMatters.com, JANUARY 2022)
https://www.popmatters.com/stephanie-lamprea-quaking-aspen-review
"An extremely unique affair that makes the most of Lamprea’s coloratura voice in both harsh and soothing ways... stunning delivery of sublime and soaring dynamics from Lamprea’s powerful pipes..."
(PopMatters.com, APRIL 2022)
https://takeeffectreviews.com/april-2020-4/2022/4/16/stephanie-lamprea
"Unaccompanied Volumes 1 and 2 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."
(ClevelandClassical.com, May 2020)
https://clevelandclassical.com/stephanie-lampreas-unaccompanied-tiny-works-for-quarantine-vols-i-ii/
"Lamprea was captivating... conjuring a wide spectrum of sounds... she hummed, clapped, and sang operatically, showing off her pure tone and her ability to pluck any pitch out of the air. Her dedication to every gesture was total."
(ClevelandClassical.com, JUNE 2019)
https://clevelandclassical.com/resound-festival-at-praxis-fiber-workshop-and-bop-stop-june-8/
"The mercurial Stephanie Lamprea... split the sentences into raw sounds - voice crack acrobatics abounded throughout."
(I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, JUNE 2019)
https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2019/06/nick-dunston-la-operacion-roulette/
"Lamprea 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, SEPT 2018)
https://www.halberstadt.de/de/rathaus_aktuell_start_leben/fern-ab-ausgetretener-pfade-des-musikalischen-alltags-fuenfter-meisterkurs-mit-john-cage-preisverleihung.html
“Stephanie Lamprea’s vibrant soprano and vulnerable interpretation of the text kicked the show into its best moments.”
(New England Theater Geek, APR 2019)
https://www.netheatregeek.com/2019/04/18/drinking-with-aristotle-in-ipsa-dixit/
"Stephanie Lamprea’s bright, ringing soprano made Hannah Duston’s terror and anger felt as much as heard. Lamprea’s heartfelt singing in the sorrowful passages momentarily transformed Duston into a sympathetic figure."
"Lamprea’s soaring lines brought out the searching humanity and loneliness of her character.."
(Boston Classical Review, MAY 2019)
http://bostonclassicalreview.com/2019/05/guerilla-opera-offers-compelling-preview-of-the-captivity-of-hannah-duston/
Interview: The Cross-Eyed Pianist
https://crosseyedpianist.com/2020/01/02/stephanie-lamprea-new-music-vocalist/
Interview: ClevelandClassical.com
https://clevelandclassical.com/resound-2019-a-conversation-with-vocalist-stephanie-lamprea/
Interview: Original Gravity Concerts Series
www.facebook.com/originalgravitymusic/videos/2597761196961872/
The Boston Music Intelligencer
https://www.classical-scene.com/2018/11/05/armory-hosts-new-music/
Original Gravity Podcast - Episode 24
https://www.originalgravitymusic.org/podcast/2018/10/14/episode-24-april-beer-amp-music-preview
I Care If You Listen / American Composer's Forum - What does the 19th Amendment mean to you?
https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2020/11/what-does-the-19th-amendment-mean-to-you-part-2/
(Rachel Spence, Financial Times, May 2024)
https://www.ft.com/content/603254be-d65b-446e-ade8-013d0a0c2f5a
"...the heart of Jones’s conception is a mesmerising film of Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea... The sound (and vision) is stunning, harrowing, agonising, sonorous and then garbled, stoppered, and running, as it seems, backwards."
(Laura Cumming, The Observer, May 2024)
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/12/artemisia-in-birmingham-jesse-jones-mirror-martyr-mirror-moon-dion-kitson-rue-britannia-review-reshaping-art-history
"Stephanie Lamprea’s performance tak[es] the work to the edge of hysteria... clearly inhabiting every particle of the score, her performance was Expressionist with a capital E, with everything pushed to extremes."
(Andrew Clements, The Guardian, July 2024)
www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/10/spitalfields-festival-hebrides-ensemble-lamprea-review-schoenberg-pierrot
"...Lamprea’s symphony of sporadic gasps, intricate vocal runs and poetic monologues to create an album that is equal parts urgent and indulgent..."
(Jack Faulds, The Skinny, March 2024)
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interviews/spotlight-on-stephanie-lamprea-tom-w-green
"...the singer evokes the text with a continuous and restless stream of songs, speech, whisper, trills, sighs and other in- and out-breath vocal techniques across a wide dynamic and octave range. Words emerge and disappear, some audible, some not. It is an evocative, stirring and yearning concoction, demanding careful control and dexterity from Lamprea, as well as serious expressive energy."
(Simon Barrow, Edinburgh Music Review, February 2024)
https://www.edinburghmusicreview.com/reviews/doubleportrait-eca
"'Don't Add To Heartache' is not just an album, but a profound experience... Lamprea's voice leades us through a sonic jungle, accompanied by Green's masterful compositions. The combination of beauty and vulnerability makes this album a haunting work."
(Alexander Möll, AM:plified Magazine, February 2024)
https://amplified-mag.de/reviews/stephanie-lampreas-dont-add-to-heartache-eine-natur-odyssee-zwischen-klang-und-chaos
"Lamprea’s stunning vocal acrobatics that are both melodic, flowing and often are used like an instrument and lets us know that this will be no typical a cappella listen... A Colombian-American artist who delivers classical music in very unorthodox ways, Lamprea manipulates timbre and dramatic flair for this truly unique record that you could never listen to just once."
(Tom Haugen, Take Effect, July 2023)
https://takeeffectreviews.com/july-2023-1/2023/7/6/stephanie-lamprea
"The ensemble cuts between Stephanie Lamprea’s radiant soprano song and recordings of interviews with a focus group of 25 neurodivergent people... The soprano’s wrists are wrapped in gloves with sensors that convert her movement to MIDI-data, allowing her to adjust the reverb of the sound through gesture. The effect is unlike anything most have experienced in a concert hall. It is transfixing."
(Ellen Wilkinson, The Upcoming, May 2023)
https://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2023/05/16/city-of-london-sinfonia-divergent-sounds-at-queen-elizabeth-hall-live-review/
"The young soprano achieves to 'humanize' the stress and schizophrenia present in the music, navigating them with naturalness and spontaneity due to the cycle's complex emotional landscape... With this album, Lamprea demonstrates that she not only has a solid vocal technique and great musical intelligence, but she also possesses ambition, courage and a curiosity that, in view of her other projects, seems insatiable; a set of aptitudes that, if she continues like this, augurs a very promising future for her."
(Jesus Castañer, Scherzo España, March 2023)
PDF version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cOOTVoyPkMhbHane6fvcdVHsS29vnBBq/view?usp=sharing
"Lamprea ventures onto the highly virtuosic black-ice of whispering, whistling, breathing, hissing, screaming, and (a few) sung notes. Her tour-de-force is a sportive vocal adventure of impressive proportions."
(Concerti.de, March 2023)
www.concerti.ch/rezensionen-ch/stephanie-lamprea-aperghis-14-recitations/
"Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea goes all out in this forceful new account, where her virtuosity is complemented by total commitment and vivid imagination."
(Peter Margasak, Bandcamp.com, March 2023)
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemporary-classical/the-best-contemporary-classical-on-bandcamp-february-2023
"Around Higham’s honeyed lullaby coil the post-human pipes of Stephanie Lamprea, a soprano trained in the high-flying ululations of operatic coloratura... Lamprea’s extraordinary vocals recall that most pioneering of electronic musical instruments, the theremin..."
(She Makes Music, February 2023)
https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/new-music/post-coal-prom-queen-are-contacted-by-aliens-on-new-single-wheeling-through-the-void/
"This is not simply music; it’s performance art of the highest caliber. There is singing, shouting, screaming, laughing, all manner of vocal emotion... Lamprea, a fearless genius of a performer, is constantly moving the goalposts and redefining modern music by tackling the most challenging compositions with bravura and passion."
(PopMatters.com, February 2023)
https://www.popmatters.com/stephanie-lamprea-14-recitations-review
"She's giving us vocal gymnastics in some of the most fiendish music ever written for solo voice... Incredible Colombian American Soprano Stephanie Lamprea getting right under the skin of the first of the 14 Recitations by Georges Aperghis... tapping into the extreme physicality and explosive expressiveness of that music."
(BBC Radio 3, February 2023)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001j4rn
"Stephanie Lamprea threw caution to the wind, pushing her voice to the far fringes of her formidable technique throughout an eclectic program of relatively short, minimalistic works which were often bracing, sometimes downright scary, other times immersively atmospheric or very funny."
(New York Music Daily, SEPTEMBER 2022)
https://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/stephanilamprea/
“Stephanie Lamprea, a Colombian–American soprano, demonstrates her iconoclasm and fearless commitment to new sounds right out of the gate…It’s an impressive display of extended vocal techniques, in the honorable tradition of such forward-looking artists as Bethany Beardslee, Cathy Berberian and Joan La Barbara.”
(Opera News, June 2022)
https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2022/6/Recordings/Stephanie_Lamprea__Quaking_Aspen.html
PDF version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ubU2D8TYhLDoA6UIyS8lVqS2V9mOEzyN/view?usp=sharing
"Quaking Aspen showcases Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea’s incredible range. The new works on the album, which were composed for Lamprea and highlight poetry by female writers from the 19th through 21st centuries, feature everything from exquisite melodies to jagged-edged squeals to ominous hums. The focal point throughout is Lamprea’s vocals: She effortlessly switches tones and styles on every track, painting theatrical, detailed pictures that only need one thing to feel vivid—her voice."
(The Road to Sound, February 2022)
https://theroadtosound.com/2022/02/10/january-2022-in-experimental-music/
"On her debut solo album Quaking Aspen, Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea makes a bold artistic statement that’s exciting and innovative... a startlingly gifted soprano..."
(PopMatters.com, JANUARY 2022)
https://www.popmatters.com/stephanie-lamprea-quaking-aspen-review
"An extremely unique affair that makes the most of Lamprea’s coloratura voice in both harsh and soothing ways... stunning delivery of sublime and soaring dynamics from Lamprea’s powerful pipes..."
(PopMatters.com, APRIL 2022)
https://takeeffectreviews.com/april-2020-4/2022/4/16/stephanie-lamprea
"Unaccompanied Volumes 1 and 2 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."
(ClevelandClassical.com, May 2020)
https://clevelandclassical.com/stephanie-lampreas-unaccompanied-tiny-works-for-quarantine-vols-i-ii/
"Lamprea was captivating... conjuring a wide spectrum of sounds... she hummed, clapped, and sang operatically, showing off her pure tone and her ability to pluck any pitch out of the air. Her dedication to every gesture was total."
(ClevelandClassical.com, JUNE 2019)
https://clevelandclassical.com/resound-festival-at-praxis-fiber-workshop-and-bop-stop-june-8/
"The mercurial Stephanie Lamprea... split the sentences into raw sounds - voice crack acrobatics abounded throughout."
(I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, JUNE 2019)
https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2019/06/nick-dunston-la-operacion-roulette/
"Lamprea 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, SEPT 2018)
https://www.halberstadt.de/de/rathaus_aktuell_start_leben/fern-ab-ausgetretener-pfade-des-musikalischen-alltags-fuenfter-meisterkurs-mit-john-cage-preisverleihung.html
“Stephanie Lamprea’s vibrant soprano and vulnerable interpretation of the text kicked the show into its best moments.”
(New England Theater Geek, APR 2019)
https://www.netheatregeek.com/2019/04/18/drinking-with-aristotle-in-ipsa-dixit/
"Stephanie Lamprea’s bright, ringing soprano made Hannah Duston’s terror and anger felt as much as heard. Lamprea’s heartfelt singing in the sorrowful passages momentarily transformed Duston into a sympathetic figure."
"Lamprea’s soaring lines brought out the searching humanity and loneliness of her character.."
(Boston Classical Review, MAY 2019)
http://bostonclassicalreview.com/2019/05/guerilla-opera-offers-compelling-preview-of-the-captivity-of-hannah-duston/
Interview: The Cross-Eyed Pianist
https://crosseyedpianist.com/2020/01/02/stephanie-lamprea-new-music-vocalist/
Interview: ClevelandClassical.com
https://clevelandclassical.com/resound-2019-a-conversation-with-vocalist-stephanie-lamprea/
Interview: Original Gravity Concerts Series
www.facebook.com/originalgravitymusic/videos/2597761196961872/
The Boston Music Intelligencer
https://www.classical-scene.com/2018/11/05/armory-hosts-new-music/
Original Gravity Podcast - Episode 24
https://www.originalgravitymusic.org/podcast/2018/10/14/episode-24-april-beer-amp-music-preview
I Care If You Listen / American Composer's Forum - What does the 19th Amendment mean to you?
https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2020/11/what-does-the-19th-amendment-mean-to-you-part-2/
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