Performer Biography

Stephen Stavnicky is an active freelance trumpet player, bass/baritone, and private lesson teacher based in Cleveland. As a trumpet player, he 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’s Requiem, and he was the world-premiere baritone soloist for David Briggs’s “Requiem for Men’s Voices.” He has also portrayed operetta/opera roles while in school, including Bob in Menotti’s “The Old Maid and the Thief,” Ben in Menotti’s “The Telephone,” Leporello in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” and Mr. Choufleuri in Offenbach’s “A Musical Evening at the Choufleuri’s.” 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 this past year; he was also the first place-winner of the adult division of Ohio NATS in 2021 and was first runner-up in the KSU concerto competition the same year. Stephen holds a BM in Trumpet Performance from Kent State University, and he will be moving to Bloomington, Indiana this coming August to begin two Master of Music degrees (Trumpet Performance and Voice/Opera Performance) at Indiana University- Jacobs School of Music to study with Jason Bergman (trumpet) and Timothy Noble (voice). His past primary teachers include Amanda Bekeny (trumpet), Lyle Steelman (trumpet), Jack Sutte (trumpet), Lara Troyer (voice), Peter Bush (voice), and José Gotera (voice).