Contemporary Music Festival 2023: Stephanie Lamprea

Stephanie Lamprea will premiere new works for voice by student composers at the University of Leeds, plus selections from Georges Aperghis' 14 Recitations, for solo female voice.

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, 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). Stephanie has received awards from the Concert Artist Guild, St. Botolph Club Foundation, the John Cage Orgel Stiftung, the Puffin Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Stephanie has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium (New York City), Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland's 2021 soundfestival, National Sawdust (NYC), the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Casa da Música (Porto). She has collaborated with several leading new music ensembles and bands including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wavefield Ensemble, So Percussion, Red Note Ensemble, Talujon, Guerilla Opera, and Post Coal Prom Queen.

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