Evan
Marie Dozier-Stefanuk is a young and successful soprano
vocalist and composer. She has studied music since
the age of 14, when she began at Vanderbilt University's
Blair School of Music in their pre-college program
and later obtained her bachelor of music degree from
Vanderbilt, graduating summa cum laude in 2000. In
May of 2006, Evan graduated with her master of music
degree in vocal performance and opera from Georgia
State University in Atlanta.
Evan’s
most recent accomplishments include: First-Place prize
winner of the Pro-Mozart Competition, which sent her
to study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. And
in the summer of 2006, Evan was an artist with the
American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.
She also recently performed the role of “Lady
Billows” in the opera Albert Herring by Benjamin
Britten as well as the title role of “Suor Angelica”
in Puccini’s Suor Angelica.
Evan
has studied in private lessons and in master classes
with world-reknown teachers including: Thomas Hampson,
Gabriella Lechner, Karen Peeler, John Kolody, Richard
Miller, Edda Moser, Edith Mathis, Galina Pisarenko,
Sharon Stephenson, Dr. Jonathan Miller, George Shirley,
Dr. Jonathan Retzlaff, Carol Webber, Ward Holmquist,
Carol Neblett, Maestro Fred Scott and Walter Huff
of the Atlanta Opera, Dr. Peter Marshall of the Atlanta
Symphony, and others. Aside from her performing career,
Evan enjoys an exceptionally successful vocal studio
in Atlanta, Georgia. Many of her students have been
accepted as vocal majors at leading universities and
colleges including The Guild Hall School in London,
North Carolina School of the Arts, Vanderbilt University,
Belmont University, Shorter College, and many others.
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