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Stephen Bomgardner enjoys an active singing career in opera and on the concert stage. He has performed in Los Angeles, Boston, Minneapolis, Seattle, Houston, San Antonio, and numerous other cities across the United States. Recent performances include tenor soloist with the Springfield Symphony and Springfield Regional Opera (MO), Valley Symphony Orchestra (TX), Saint Peter Choral Society (MN), Springfield-Drury Civic Orchestra (MO), and recitals in Massachusetts, Vermont, Minnesota, North Dakota, Missouri, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and California.
In opera he specializes in character tenor and buffo tenor roles. This season, he performed the roles of Goro (Madama Butterfly) and Mr. Erlanson (A Little Night Music) with Springfield Regional Opera. His repertoire includes twenty-three different roles including Basilio (The Marriage of Figaro), Witch (Hansel and Gretel), Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), Mayor Upford (Albert Herring) and Vasek (The Bartered Bride).
Equally at home on the concert stage, he has performed as tenor soloist in thirty-five different symphonic works including Messiah (Handel), Requiem, Solemn Vespers (Mozart), Lord Nelson Mass, Mass in Time of War (Haydn), Elijah (Mendelssohn) and numerous cantatas by J. S. Bach.
In recital he has performed seventy-one solo and chamber music recitals, and his repertoire encompasses a wide variety of English, German, Italian, French and Russian art song. Major song cycles include Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise; Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Liederkreis, Op. 24; Mussorgsky’s The Nursery; and Britten’s Canticle I, II, and III. Recent recitals include Pepperdine University (CA), Louisiana State University, the Weisman Art Gallery (MN), and the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul (MA).He is Associate Professor of Music at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, where he teaches voice and directs the Drury Opera. Prior to coming to Missouri, he taught applied voice lessons and directed the opera workshop at Minnesota State University, Pittsburg State University and the University of Texas-Pan American, and he was an adjunct voice professor at Gustavus Adolphus College. He also spent four summers teaching at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), the high school component of the Tanglewood Music Festival. His students consistently place as semi-finalists and finalists at NATS competitions, and he is in demand as an adjudicator for music contests.
He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance from Boston University's School of Music, the Master of Music from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, and the Bachelor of Music from Fort Hays State University. He is also active in professional organizations such as NATS, TMEA, MMEA, the College Music Society, Opera America, National Opera Association, Pi Kappa Lamba, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.