My Program Bio

Stephanie Turner a native of Santa Barbara, transferred to UCSB from Santa Barbara City College where she majored in music and sang with the SBCC Concert Choir and the Chamber Singers. She performed solos for many works including Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Haydn’s Mass in D, Gwyneth Walker’s The Christ Child Lullaby, Mozart’s Dixit Dominus, Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, as well as Broadway works and spirituals. While attending SBCC she was accepted into the applied music program where she studied voice with Andriana Kolendrianos. Each Christmas season, Stephanie is invited to sing in Disneyland’s Candlelight Procession. She was also invited to sing in the performance of Mozart’s Requiem at the Arlington Remembering September 11th. Stephanie currently sings with several local choirs including the UCSB Chamber Choir, the Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces, and the Goleta Valley Ward Choir of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She studied for two years with Steven Kronauer and is currently studying with Susana Poretsky. In 2006 she toured England with the Quire of Voyces. Stepahnie participated in vocal performance workshops with Eduardo Villa at SBCC, and David Daniels at UCSB. Stephanie has received scholarships from the California Women’s Chorus, ASAP, and a UCSB Music Affiliates Excellence-at-Entrance award. In 2007 she played the second woman in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas for The Opera Theatre at UCSB. The following season Stephanie sang the lead role of Mauyra in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea. In Summer 2008 she appeared in the Music Academy of the West’s production of William Bolcom’s A Wedding. Stephanie also had the role of Vincenza Biscroma in the 2009 UCSB Opera production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Le Convenienze e le Inconvenienze Teatrali, Viva La Mamma. In addition to singing Stephanie enjoys composing, teaching voice and piano, and playing the flute and violin.