Stephen Lancaster
Assistant Teaching Professor 
B.M. Moody Bible Institute
M.M. University of Notre Dame
D.M.A. University of Michigan
Office: 217 Crowley Hall
Telephone: (574) 631-7832
Email: slancast@nd.edu
Website: www.stephenlancaster.net
Baritone Stephen Lancaster is an artist equally at home in opera, concert, and recital. On the operatic stage, highlights include the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Notre Dame, as well as Schaunard in La Bohème, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, and Morales/Dancaïro in Carmen with Arbor Opera Theater. This season he will reprise the role of Dancaïro with Eugene Opera in Eugene, Oregon. In 2010 he debuted in Carnegie Hall, as guest artist with the Notre Dame Concert Band, and in Chiang-Kai Shek Memorial Concert Hall in Taipei, during a recital tour of Taiwan. A lover of new music, for two seasons he has appeared in numerous recital, chamber music, and opera performances as an Artist Fellow in the Atlantic Music Festival, singing new works by young American composers.
Mr. Lancaster’s concert credits include Haydn’s Nelsonmesse and Fauré’s Requiem with the South Bend Symphony, performances of Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem, Fantasia on Christmas Carols, and Five Mystical Songs, and the Duruflé Requiem, recently performed with the Macalester College Choirs at the historic House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. This season he will add the Brahms Requiem to his repertoire, performing with a mass choir at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle, Washington. A passionate recitalist, he has made guest appearances in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, and France and has collaborated with celebrated pianist Martin Katz. He recently added Winterreise to his repertoire, appearing with fortepianist James Janssen last season at Haydn-by-the-Lake in Evanston, Illinois, and again this season at University of Notre Dame in February 2012. A specialist in French mélodie, he was a finalist in the “Grand Concours de Chant: Tribute to Gerard Souzay” in 2009 and has commissioned and premiered French songs by Canadian composer J. Scott Brubacher. He has also been featured as a Stern Fellow at SongFest, singing in the west-coast premiere of John Musto’s “Book of Uncommon Prayer.”
Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Mr. Lancaster began his musical studies at an early age, earning certificates in piano and voice from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. After moving to the United States with his family during high school, he studied sacred music at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and earned graduate degrees in vocal performance from the University of Notre Dame (M.M.) and the University of Michigan (A.Mus.D.) His teachers have included Judith Haddon, Caroline Helton, and George Shirley. A committed and active pedagogue, he was a member of the voice faculty of the Franco-American Vocal Academy in Périgord, France in 2009 and since 2007, he has taught at the University of Notre Dame, where he is currently Assistant Teaching Professor of Voice. He is also active in sacred music as a singer, organist, and choral conductor, having served in various churches, performed sacred concerts, and conducted workshops in the United States and France. Currently he teaches in the Master of Sacred Music at the University of Notre Dame and serves as Choir Director and Associate Organist at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Elkhart, Indiana.
