Biography Heralded for his “powerfully expressive voice” (Washington Post, May 2009), Stephen Ng

Stephen Ng, tenor

Biography

As a soloist, Stephen has performed all the major works of J.S. Bach, Handel’s Messiah, as well as major oratorios. His portrayal of Evangelist in Bach’s Passions has received much acclaim, and he has performed with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Carmel Bach Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. Stephen’s other engagements also include performing with Festival Internacional Cervantino (Guanajuato, Mexico), Theatre of Voices, Schönberg Ensemble (Amsterdam), Tanglewood Music Festival, Berklee College of Music, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, working with conductors such as James Levine, Nicolas McGegan, Paul Hillier, Reinbert de Leeuw, J. Reilly Lewis, Simon Carrington, Daniel Reuss, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. With great interest in contemporary music, he has performed twice at the Lucerne Festival Academy, under the direction of Pierre Boulez, including a return appearance in 2009 where he performed Sinfonia by Luciano Berio.

Clear Note Publications has released Stephen’s recording of Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Vanished. Of this, Journal of Singing writes “Ng, with an impressively eclectic resume, is simply superb in every respect. His voice is gorgeous and distinctive.” Born and raised in Hong Kong, Stephen received his D.M. at Indiana University and his M.M. at Boston’s New England Conservatory. From 2002-2010 he served as an Associate Professor of Voice at Florida’s Stetson University. Currently he is on the voice faculty at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and in the summer of 2011 he will join the faculty at the InterHarmony International Music Festival in Birklehof, Germany.

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