Susannah Stewart

Susannah Stewart, soprano, recently earned her MM degree from the Eastman School of Music (2021), after earning her bachelor’s degree at UNC Chapel Hill in Voice and Political Science (2019). In her years at Eastman, she performed the role of Aveline Mortimer in Elizabeth Cree (Kevin Puts) and The Lady with the Cake Box in Postcard from Morocco (Dominick Argento), both music directed by her primary coach, Professor Timothy Long. In 2020, Susannah was asked by Eastman’s Dean Marie Rolf to perform in her “Debussy Premieres” lecture recital, presented in Hatch Hall at Eastman, and at the J.P. Morgan Library in New York City, alongside Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor, and Randall Scarlata, baritone. This production featured a New York City premiere, a US premiere, and a world premiere. 

Throughout high school and college, Susannah was an active competitor in the NATS competitions, often winning state-wide and regionally, and in 2018, she won first place for Junior/Senior College Women at the national competition. Other opera credits include Alcina (Alcina, UNC Opera), Dido (Dido and Aeneas, UNC Opera), and Zerlina (Don Giovanni, International Young Artists’ Project). Future performances will include Il primo amore by Marianna Martines and the role of Euridice from Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, both with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle.