Steven Ebel, Tenor

Biography

A 2011 graduate of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Steven Ebel made his London debut as Victorin / Gaston in Die tote Stadt in 2009. Other roles in his first season included Rimenes (Artaxerxes), Hypochondriac Gambler (The Gamble)r, Albazar (Ilturco in Italia), Faninal’s Major Domo (Der Rosenkavalier) and Fourth Jew (Salome).

Steven Ebel trained at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and studies with Neil Semer. He won Second Prize in the 2007 Concours de Montréal and came second in the 2005 New York Oratorio Solo Competition.

North American engagements have included Jaquino (Fidelio) for Empire Opera, Quint (The Turn of the Screw at the Castleton Festival, conducted by Lorin Maazel, and for Opera Cleveland, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) for Cleveland Institute of Music and Jimmy Mahoney (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) at Tanglewood Music Centre, a role he has also sung in Livorno, Lucca, Pisa and Ravenna.

Steven Ebel is also an accomplished composer: Diary of a Young Poet, a setting of poems by Rilke for Tenor, Narrator and Piano, and Divan Songs, settings of Goethe, have been performed with ROH2, whilst the premiere of his International Suite for Solo Violin was given by Sophie Alscher at London’s Royal College of Music. Currently, he is at work on commissions for New Music New York (voices and ensemble), Diapason Musik Akademie in Karlsruhe, Germany, (youth string quartet) and the Kandinsky Wind Trio for the Chichester Festival.

His engagements at the Royal Opera House for 2010 / 2011 included Jaquino (Fidelio), Gernando (L’isola disabitata), Messenger (Aïda), Malcolm (Macbeth) and Heinrich der Schreiber (Tannhäuser), as well as a staged version of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Veneziana, the Venice-themed JPYAP Summer Concert.