STEPHEN MUMBERT, BASS-BARITONE

Hailed as a “Scene-stealer…with a knack for staying in character even when he isn’t the center of attention,” as well as “Vocally the most promising singer…with an assured and stylish technique” by the Guardian Newspaper for his interpretation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Stephen Mumbert is currently an Adjunct Professor of Voice at Rollins College as well as Stetson University and maintains a private voice studio here in Orlando FL.

He is a graduate of Stetson University where he holds a B.M. in voice performance, and he also holds an M.M. in opera from The Boston Conservatory. Performance highlights include singing Khan Kontchak from Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances in Steinmetz Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bass Soloist for the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park’s Classic Christmas Concert (which was filmed and aired on PBS this past Christmas), a concert of Handel’s Vespers with the Bach Vocal Artists, Mozart’s Requiem with the Riverside Community Chorale and Orchestra as well as with the Dakota Valley Symphony (broadcast on Twin Cities Public Television), Handel’s Messiah with the Messiah Choral Society, First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, and Space Coast Symphony Orchestra, Jesus in Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Bass Soloist in Bach’s Magnificat, Bass Soloist in Einhorn’s Voices of Light, and Faure’s Requiem all with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, the Doctor in the Death of Ivan Ilych, Count Monterone in Rigoletto, Actor 8 in a tour of All is Calm, as well as Marco in Gianni Schicchi, King Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Santa Barry in the world premier of Four Lost Santas all with Opera Orlando.

Upcoming local performances include Bass Soloist in Faure’s Requiem at First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, Salieri in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri with Musical Traditions, Lucifer in Handel’s Resurrezione with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, and as a featured soloist in a concert titled “Leading Men of Broadway” with the Space Coast Symphony. Stephen is honored to be a founding member of the Bach Vocal Artists and privileged to have performed in every one of their concerts to date including the upcoming concert of Choral Works by Antonio Vivaldi this May.