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 Die tote Stadt in 2009. Other roles in his first season included Rimenes Artaxerxes, Hypochondriac Gambler The Gambler, 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 ROH 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.
His recordings include Wolf in Louis Karchin’s Romulus on Naxos CD and Malcolm Macbeth on Opus Arte Blu-ray / DVD.
Current engagements include Lechmere Owen Wingrave at the Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, Sali A Village Romeo and Juliet at the Badisches Stadtstheater Karlsruhe and Boris Katya Kabanova at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile.
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