Performer Biography

Stephen Stavnicky is a bass-baritone and trumpet player originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana and is attending Indiana University-Jacobs School of Music where he is pursuing a Master of Music degree in both voice performance and trumpet performance under the tutelage of Peter Volpe (voice) and Jason Bergman (trumpet). As a trumpet player, he has performed with many full ensembles and chamber ensembles at IU and has been a substitute musician with the Mansfield Symphony, Firelands Symphony, Snowbelt Symphony, and has been a member of the Ohio Light Opera Orchestra and the Cleveland Winds. As a singer, he has been a soloist for J.S. Bach Magnificat, C.P.E. Bach Magnificat, Mozart Requiem, and was the world-premiere baritone soloist for David Briggs’s Requiem for Men’s Voices. He has also portrayed many opera/operetta roles while in school, including Bob in The Old Maid and the Thief, Ben in The Telephone, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Dottore Grenville in La Traviata, and was recently onstage with IU Opera and Ballet Theater as Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin. Stephen was named the first-place winner of the brass division of the 2022 Tuesday Musical scholarship competition, and was then named the third-place winner of the voice division of the same competition in 2023. Stephen holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from Kent State University.