Stephanie Houtzeel, mezzo-soprano

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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