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British-Brazilian-American mezzo-soprano, voice teacher and

stage director, Sarah Stone received her Bachelor of Music

from Indiana State University, and Masters of Music in Voice

Performance from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana

University. Currently writing her doctoral document, she is

completing a D.M. in Voice Performance and Literature,

with a minor in Opera stage Direction, at Indiana University. 

An experienced vocal pedagogue, Ms. Stone was selected

as a participant in Richard Miller’s two-week intensive

Institute of Voice Performance Pedagogy for two consecutive

summers in 2002 and 2003 where she participated in

masterclassesand seminars with Mr. Miller. She is an alumna

of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music

Center where she coached with Dawn Upshaw, William Sharp,

Lucy Shelton, Dennis Helmrich, Ken Griffiths and Alan Smith.  

At Tanglewood she also participated in masterclasses with maestro James Levine, Phyllis Curtin, and William Bolcolm. She has performed under the baton international conductors Craig Smith (Emmanuel Music, Boston), John Poole, James Effron, Ronald Zollman, Rob Fisher and James Levine. A versatile singer-actress on both the opera and musical theatre stage her credits include Stephano and Gertrude in Romeo et Juliette, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Filippyevna in Eugene Onegin, Third Lady in Magic Flute, Margaret in the collegiate premiere of Light in the Piazza, Consuelo and Somewhere Girl in West Side Story, and Aldonza in Man of La Mancha among many others. She has performed professionally, both nationally and internationally, with Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet, Bloomington Summer Music Festival, Bay View Music Festival, and The Traditional Jazz Band. She is a founding member of Yara, a piano-voice based ensemble specializing in the performance and dissemination of little known Iberian, Lusophone and Latin American repertoire, travelling the country offering concerts and masterclasses. Previous academic engagements include instructor of secondary voice at Indiana University, and lecturer in voice positions at Vincennes University in Indiana and Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Her students have been accepted at Indiana University, Ball State University, Boston Conservatory, Interlochen Summer Academy and Bay View Music Festival and have won NATS Regional Auditions and regional pageants.

 

A seasoned stage director Ms. Stone has directed both opera and musical theatre performances at the Bay View Music Festival for the past three years and is one of the founders of the SOARS program (Summer Opera Arts Song and Recording Seminar) at that festival. Stone apprenticed as a stage director and opera administrator at the Indiana University Opera Ballet Theatre under director Vince Liotta (IU & Chicago Lyric Opera), renowned scenic artist David Higgins and Tim Stebbins, Executive Director of Opera Ballet Productions. While working toward a degree in Voice Performance and Opera Stage Direction at IU, she was commissioned to write an adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado for the undergraduate opera workshop, set in a Nissan Factory in Tennessee, which has been produced at universities around the country, and most recently at University of Louisiana. With the IU Opera Ballet Theatre she has worked under the direction of Colin Graham, Yefim Maizel, Håkan Hagegård, Michael Ehrman, and James Marvel among others. 

 

 

Biography

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IN THE NEWS

YARA OFFERS RECITALS AND MASTERCLASSES IN INDIANA

Yara, the voice and piano duo consisting of Sarah Stone and Alexandra Mascolo-David,  will be in residency at  Indiana State University on Sunday, February 23rd and at Vincennes University on Sunday, April 27th . The duo will be offering a program of Iberian and Latin American works for voice and piano as well as masterclasses.

 

 

TALENTS UNITE IN FUNNY 'FALSTAFF'​

AUG 9th 2013

"This Verdi comedy is fast paced, full of action, tightly as well as imaginatively directed by Sarah Stone in her typical style".

                           - Mary Jane Doerr

                  PETOSKEY NEWS REVIEW

 

 

LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA IS OUTSTANDING

"So if you didn’t get to see “The Light in the Piazza” during its opening weekend, seriously consider attending one of the remaining performances Friday and Saturday. Sarah Stone (on opening night) invested the role of the mother with a natural maturity far beyond her actual years; not only that, but [she] handled some taxing solos with conviction both musically and dramatically.

                                   - Peter Jacobi

       BLOOMINGTON HERALD TIMES

 

 

THE TALE OF LADY THI KINH:

PHAN'S NEW OPERA HOLDS PROMISE

"Thi Kinh (called Tieu Kinh Tam as the monk), faced with unforgiving cruelty, decides to enter nirvana, then shows herself to all those who had sought to torment her and who, now, forgive and ask to be forgiven. Sarah Stone excelled in the title role".

                                   - Peter Jacobi

       BLOOMINGTON HERALD TIMES

 

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