about stephanie
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Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, recitalist, curator 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). Her work has been described as “mercurial” by I Care If You Listen, "dynamic" by critic Steve Smith (Night After Night), 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 St. Botolph Club Foundation, John Cage Orgel Stiftung and Puffin Foundation. 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). Works which Stephanie has performed include Kate Soper's Ipsa Dixit, Georges Aperghis' 14 Recitations, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium, National Sawdust, Miller Theater at Columbia University, the Slipper Room, Park Avenue Armory, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Re:Sound Festival. She has worked with Wavefield Ensemble, Ekmeles, Guerrilla Opera, Boston Art Song Society and the Original Gravity Concert Series. Stephanie was a featured TEDx Speaker in TEDxWaltham: Going Places.
TEDx Talk: "Your voice is a fingerprint"
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recent acclaim
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Cleveland Classical
"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." - FULL REVIEW I Care If You Listen "The mercurial Stephanie Lamprea... split the sentences into raw sounds - voice crack acrobatics abounded throughout." - FULL REVIEW Halberstadt.de "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." - FULL REVIEW |
recent media
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"Dithyramb" - Jason Eckardt
Dithyramb is an excerpt of a larger work, Tongues, which was inspired in part by "speaking in tongues": an estate outburst of unintelligible vocal sounds that resembles spoken language. The vocal writing in here evokes the volatile grip of possession that is said to hold the human vessels through the divine or supernatural passes. "La Operación" - Nick Dunston
La Operación is a multi-movement composition written for soprano voice, two alto saxophones, two double basses, and two percussionists. Inspired by the 1982 documentary of the same name by Ana María García, this piece is an abstract interpretation of a historical phenomenon involving colorism in Puerto Rico, eugenics, medical malpractice, second-wave feminism, and American colonialism. Sequenza III - Luciano Berio
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"Poetics" from IPSA DIXIT - Kate Soper
Ipsa Dixit (2010 - 16) is an evening-length work of chamber music theatre for voice, flute, violin, and percussion that explores music, language, and meaning through blistering ensemble virtuosity and extended vocal technique. Ipsa Dixit was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music. "Poetics" is the first movement of the work. Recitation 9 - Georges Aperghis
14 Récitations, written 1977-88, is an ambitious and difficult work for solo female voice. Agglomeration of high notes are interrupted with coughs, mutters, and stray words seemingly spoken out of turn. Based around extended vocal technique, the work’s discontinuous form falls between musical and verbal support structures, and forces the singer to build their own vocal character in the interstices of word and sound. "Only The Words Themselves Mean What They Say" from IPSA DIXIT - Kate Soper
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recital programs
GEORGES APERGHIS: 14 RECITATIONS
Instrumentation: Solo voice
14 Récitations, written 1977-88, is an ambitious and difficult work for solo female voice by Georges Aperghis. Agglomeration of high notes are interrupted with coughs, mutters, and stray words seemingly spoken out of turn. Based around extended vocal technique, the work’s discontinuous form falls between musical and verbal support structures, and forces the singer to build their own vocal character in the interstices of word and sound.
Instrumentation: Solo voice
14 Récitations, written 1977-88, is an ambitious and difficult work for solo female voice by Georges Aperghis. Agglomeration of high notes are interrupted with coughs, mutters, and stray words seemingly spoken out of turn. Based around extended vocal technique, the work’s discontinuous form falls between musical and verbal support structures, and forces the singer to build their own vocal character in the interstices of word and sound.
WOMEN TAKE THE FLOOR
Instrumentation: Solo voice
This recital features works by all female-identifying composers.
Natacha Diels - "Bahnhof" (voice / electronics
Judith Bingham - "Cathedral of Trees (solo voice)
Chaya Czernowin - Adiantum Capillus-Veneris I (Maidenhair fern I) (voice / breath)
Katherine Balch - these intervals matter (voice / found objects)
Marti Epstein - "Klange" (solo voice)
Tiange Zhou - Si (voice / singing bowls / electronics)
Instrumentation: Solo voice
This recital features works by all female-identifying composers.
Natacha Diels - "Bahnhof" (voice / electronics
Judith Bingham - "Cathedral of Trees (solo voice)
Chaya Czernowin - Adiantum Capillus-Veneris I (Maidenhair fern I) (voice / breath)
Katherine Balch - these intervals matter (voice / found objects)
Marti Epstein - "Klange" (solo voice)
Tiange Zhou - Si (voice / singing bowls / electronics)
A VOICE BEYOND WORDS
Instrumentation: Voice / piano / dancer / optional drum set
This recital program, bridging the genres of contemporary classical and avant-garde, features various vocal techniques, creative forms of linguistics, and interdisciplinary performance to address communication head-on.
Sky Macklay - Glossolalia (voice / piano)
Tania Leon - Atwood Songs (voice / piano)
George Crumb - Apparition (voice / piano)
Natacha Diels - Bahnhof (voice / electronics)
Georges Aperghis - Selections from 14 Recitations (singer / dancer)
Jason Eckardt - Dithyramb (solo voice)
Closing improvisation for all players involved.
Instrumentation: Voice / piano / dancer / optional drum set
This recital program, bridging the genres of contemporary classical and avant-garde, features various vocal techniques, creative forms of linguistics, and interdisciplinary performance to address communication head-on.
Sky Macklay - Glossolalia (voice / piano)
Tania Leon - Atwood Songs (voice / piano)
George Crumb - Apparition (voice / piano)
Natacha Diels - Bahnhof (voice / electronics)
Georges Aperghis - Selections from 14 Recitations (singer / dancer)
Jason Eckardt - Dithyramb (solo voice)
Closing improvisation for all players involved.
HEAD / HEART
Instrumentation: Voice / flute
This program explores love, loss, isolation, nature and love again. It is a collection of contrasts: tender sadness and isolation, alongside outbursts of joy and passion; the logic of the head and the emotions of the heart; two performers as soloists, and two performers as one.
Kate Soper - Only The Words Themselves Mean What They Say (2010-11), for voice and flute
Ivan Fedele - Donax (1992) for solo flute
Marti Epstein - Sheep in Fog (2007), for voice and flute
Aaron Jay Myers - Lichens III (2018) for solo voice
Stratis Minakakis - Cassandra Fragments (2019) for voice and flute
Instrumentation: Voice / flute
This program explores love, loss, isolation, nature and love again. It is a collection of contrasts: tender sadness and isolation, alongside outbursts of joy and passion; the logic of the head and the emotions of the heart; two performers as soloists, and two performers as one.
Kate Soper - Only The Words Themselves Mean What They Say (2010-11), for voice and flute
Ivan Fedele - Donax (1992) for solo flute
Marti Epstein - Sheep in Fog (2007), for voice and flute
Aaron Jay Myers - Lichens III (2018) for solo voice
Stratis Minakakis - Cassandra Fragments (2019) for voice and flute
Workshop offeringsLectures on contemporary vocal music for composers and singers
Masterclasses for singers and instrumentalists Composition Reading and Workshopping with composers Private or group lessons with singers DEMO REEL ---> |
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selected repertoire
Unaccompanied Voice
Georges Aperghis: 14 Recitations
Luciano Berio: Sequenza III
Judith Bingham: Cathedral of Trees
Chaya Czernowin: Adiantum Capillus-Veneris I
Jason Eckardt: Dithyramb (Tongues)
Marti Epstein: Klänge
Reiko Fueting: ...gesammeltes Schweigen
Aaron Jay Myers: Lichens III
Voice with Electronics or Objects
Katherine Balch: these intervals matter
Natacha Diels: Bahnhof
Kaija Saariaho: Lonh
Tiange Zhou: Si
Voice / Piano (contemporary)
Thomas Ades: Five Eliot Landscapes
John Cage: She Is Asleep
George Crumb: Apparition
George Crumb: Three Early Songs
Elisenda Fabregas: Moments of Change
John Harbison: Simple Daylight
Helmut Lachenmann: Got Lost
Tania Leon: Atwood Songs
Gyorg Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Sky Macklay: Glossolalia
Meredith Monk: Gotham Lullaby
Zach Sheets: scrawlbook
Voice / Piano (standard classical)
Alban Berg: Seven Early Songs
Leonard Bernstein: Glitter and Be Gay
Johannes Brahms: Lieder und Gesange, op. 57
Claude Debussy: Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse
Olivier Messiaen: Chants de terre et de ciel
Darius Milhaud: Quatre Chansons de Ronsard
Francis Poulenc: Non monsieur mon mari (aria)
Johann Strauss: Frühlingsstimmen
Richard Strauss: Mädchenblumen
Richard Strauss: Brentano Lieder
Anton Webern: Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Hildegard, op. 25
Voice / Solo Instrument
Georges Aperghis: Retrouvailles (two acting percussionists)
Ashkan Behzadi: az hoosh mi.. (voice and violin)
Carolyn Chen: fly blue between light (two voices)
Louis D’Heudieres: Laughter Studies II (two actors)
Marti Epstein: Sheep in Fog (voice and flute)
Gyorgy Kurtag: Kafka Fragments (voice and violin)
Stratis Minakakis: Cassandra Fragments (voice and flute)
Kaija Saariaho: From the Grammar of Dreams (two voices)
Kate Soper: Cipher (voice and violin)
Kate Soper: Crito (voice and percussion)
Kate Soper: Only The Words Themselves Mean What They Say (voice and flute)
Chamber (3-6 players)
Thomas Ades: Life Story (voice, two bass-clarinets, bass)
Georges Aperghis: Sept Crimes d’Amour (voice, clarinet, percussion)
Chaya Czernowin: Manoalchadia (two sopranos, bass-flute)
Morton Feldman: Voices and Cello (two voices and cello)
Lukas Foss: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (voice, flute, piano, percussion)
Hans Werner Henze: Being Beauteous (soprano, four cellos, harp)
David Lang: death speaks (voice, violin, electric guitar, piano)
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (voice, piano, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass-clarinet, violin/viola, cello)
Franz Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (voice, clarinet, piano)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok (soprano and piano trio)
Kate Soper: Ipsa Dixit (soprano, violin, flute, percussion)
Julia Werntz: Songs of Thumbelina (voice, viola, bass-clarinet)
Orchestra, Large Ensemble (7+ players), and Opera
Luciano Berio: Folksongs
Unsuk Chin: Acrostic Wordplay
George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children
Nick Dunston: La Operacion
Henri Dutilleux: Correspondences
Jason Eckardt: Tongues
Marti Epstein - Rumpelstiltskin (title role)
Gerard Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil
Bernhard Lang: Fremde Sprachen (seven singers SSAATBB and bass-clarinet)
Gyorg Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Lansing McLoskey - The Captivity of Hannah Duston (title role)*
Darius Milhaud: Quatre Chansons de Ronsard
Lewis Nielson: Cilice
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together
Kate Soper - Romance of the Rose (First Lover)
Richard Strauss: Brentano Lieder
Toru Takemitsu: Coral Island
Georges Aperghis: 14 Recitations
Luciano Berio: Sequenza III
Judith Bingham: Cathedral of Trees
Chaya Czernowin: Adiantum Capillus-Veneris I
Jason Eckardt: Dithyramb (Tongues)
Marti Epstein: Klänge
Reiko Fueting: ...gesammeltes Schweigen
Aaron Jay Myers: Lichens III
Voice with Electronics or Objects
Katherine Balch: these intervals matter
Natacha Diels: Bahnhof
Kaija Saariaho: Lonh
Tiange Zhou: Si
Voice / Piano (contemporary)
Thomas Ades: Five Eliot Landscapes
John Cage: She Is Asleep
George Crumb: Apparition
George Crumb: Three Early Songs
Elisenda Fabregas: Moments of Change
John Harbison: Simple Daylight
Helmut Lachenmann: Got Lost
Tania Leon: Atwood Songs
Gyorg Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Sky Macklay: Glossolalia
Meredith Monk: Gotham Lullaby
Zach Sheets: scrawlbook
Voice / Piano (standard classical)
Alban Berg: Seven Early Songs
Leonard Bernstein: Glitter and Be Gay
Johannes Brahms: Lieder und Gesange, op. 57
Claude Debussy: Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse
Olivier Messiaen: Chants de terre et de ciel
Darius Milhaud: Quatre Chansons de Ronsard
Francis Poulenc: Non monsieur mon mari (aria)
Johann Strauss: Frühlingsstimmen
Richard Strauss: Mädchenblumen
Richard Strauss: Brentano Lieder
Anton Webern: Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Hildegard, op. 25
Voice / Solo Instrument
Georges Aperghis: Retrouvailles (two acting percussionists)
Ashkan Behzadi: az hoosh mi.. (voice and violin)
Carolyn Chen: fly blue between light (two voices)
Louis D’Heudieres: Laughter Studies II (two actors)
Marti Epstein: Sheep in Fog (voice and flute)
Gyorgy Kurtag: Kafka Fragments (voice and violin)
Stratis Minakakis: Cassandra Fragments (voice and flute)
Kaija Saariaho: From the Grammar of Dreams (two voices)
Kate Soper: Cipher (voice and violin)
Kate Soper: Crito (voice and percussion)
Kate Soper: Only The Words Themselves Mean What They Say (voice and flute)
Chamber (3-6 players)
Thomas Ades: Life Story (voice, two bass-clarinets, bass)
Georges Aperghis: Sept Crimes d’Amour (voice, clarinet, percussion)
Chaya Czernowin: Manoalchadia (two sopranos, bass-flute)
Morton Feldman: Voices and Cello (two voices and cello)
Lukas Foss: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (voice, flute, piano, percussion)
Hans Werner Henze: Being Beauteous (soprano, four cellos, harp)
David Lang: death speaks (voice, violin, electric guitar, piano)
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (voice, piano, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass-clarinet, violin/viola, cello)
Franz Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (voice, clarinet, piano)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok (soprano and piano trio)
Kate Soper: Ipsa Dixit (soprano, violin, flute, percussion)
Julia Werntz: Songs of Thumbelina (voice, viola, bass-clarinet)
Orchestra, Large Ensemble (7+ players), and Opera
Luciano Berio: Folksongs
Unsuk Chin: Acrostic Wordplay
George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children
Nick Dunston: La Operacion
Henri Dutilleux: Correspondences
Jason Eckardt: Tongues
Marti Epstein - Rumpelstiltskin (title role)
Gerard Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil
Bernhard Lang: Fremde Sprachen (seven singers SSAATBB and bass-clarinet)
Gyorg Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Lansing McLoskey - The Captivity of Hannah Duston (title role)*
Darius Milhaud: Quatre Chansons de Ronsard
Lewis Nielson: Cilice
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together
Kate Soper - Romance of the Rose (First Lover)
Richard Strauss: Brentano Lieder
Toru Takemitsu: Coral Island