Jonathan L Stinson

Style: Opera; Classical; Musical Theatre

Title: Teaching Assistant Professor of Voice and Director of Opera

Bio:

Dr. Jonathan Stinson has appeared with opera companies throughout the country, including Cincinnati Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Kentucky Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Memphis, Dayton Opera, Cleveland Opera, Central City Opera, Ohio Light Opera, and Opera New Jersey. Dr. Stinson made his international debut in Cortona, Italy in 2010, singing the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Recent favorite roles include both Marcello and Schaunard in La bohème, Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Sid in Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring, and the title roles of Gianni Schicchi, Eugene Onegin (in English), and Don Giovanni. During the 2016-2017 season, Dr. Stinson sang the title role of Gianni Schicchi as a guest of the University of Missouri—Kansas City, joined TACTUS Chamber Ensemble for the concert, "Psalms and Sacred Songs," in Oklahoma City, and cantored Bloch's Avodath Hakodesh at Missouri State University. In 2016, as part of the 2018 Dominic J. Pelliciotti Opera Competition Prize, he created three roles in a workshop of new operas by Tom Cipullo (Mayo), Anthony Davis (The Reef), and Patrick Soluri (Albert Nobbs). In 2013, Dr. Stinson sang Joseph de Rocher in Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking for Boston Opera Collaborative and returned to Cincinnati Opera that summer to sing Second Cardinal/Second Oracle in Philip Glass's Galileo Galilei. Dr. Stinson has appeared as a soloist with Kentucky Symphony, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Carmel Bach Festival (CA), the Orchestra of Northern New York, Lafayette Symphony (IN) Liberty Symphony (MO), and Battle Creek Symphony (MI). Recent solo work has included the Requiems of Fauré, Mozart, and Duruflé, the complete Bach Weihnachts-Oratorium and Berlioz’s L'enfance du Christ. Dr. Stinson was a past Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and received the “Bel Canto Award” at the Orpheus National Voice Competition.

A huge advocate for new music, Dr. Stinson is also a prolific composer. He has composed six song cycles, as well as two one-act operas for young audiences, The Three Bears and Knightly News. His operas have been produced by Atlanta Opera, Opera Memphis, Chicago Opera Playhouse, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Reach Out Kansas, and Green Light Vocal Productions. A production of The Three Bears was mounted in May of 2017 as part of the Lougheed-Kofoed Festival of the Arts in Potsdam, NY. His anthem "Beloved" was awarded the Grand Prize in the 2015 Ninth Annual International Anthem Competition of First Baptist Church, Worcester, MA.

Dr. Stinson is currently a Teaching Assistant Professor of Voice and the Director of Opera at the University of Arkansas. He previously held the positions of Assistant Professor of Voice at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and Senior Lecturer in Musical Theatre at Edge Hill University (UK). Dr. Stinson is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Indiana University, and University of Cincinnati—College-Conservatory of Music.

Voice Type: Baritone

Music Styles Taught: Opera; Classical; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am available as a performer; I am currently accepting private students; I am available as a clinician or presenter; I accept students through a college or university program

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