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Stephanie
Houtzeel was born in Kassel, Germany and grew up in Wayland, MA.
She studied voice with Edward Zambara at New England Conservatory
and at Juilliard, where she received her Masters of Music in 1996.
Since her recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in 1997, she has appeared
on concert series including the New York Festival of Song, Musicians
from Marlboro, the Chamber Series of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
the Styriarte Festival of Graz, the International Bruckner Festival,
the Great Performers Series of Lincoln Center, the OK Mozart Festival
and Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music. She has appeared as a soloist
under conductors such as Dennis Russell Davies, Pinchas Steinberg,
Philippe Jordan, Georg Christoph Biller, and recently under Claus
Peter Flor in Beethoven’s Ninth at the Konzerthaus Wien.
Her operatic career has taken her to Graz and Linz, Austria as well
as to Germany, where she has sung Octavian in "Der Rosenkavalier,"
Cherubino in Mozart’s "The Marriage of Figaro," Orlofsky in "Die
Fledermaus," Cinderella in Rossini’s "La Cenerentola", Rosina in
"The Barber of Seville," Nicklausse in "The Tales of Hoffman," Suzuki
in "Madama Butterfly," Meg Page in Verdi’s "Falstaff" Dorabella
in "Cosí fan tutte," Zerlina in "Don Giovanni," and Don Ramiro
in Mozart’s "La finta giardiniera."
Also active in early music performance, Stephanie Houtzeel has toured
America and Europe with the BOUTS Baroque Ensemble and recently
released a CD with them of Handel chamber music and cantatas on
the Raumklang label. This fall marks her first series of appearances
with the Four Nations Ensemble.
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