Stephen Lusmann

Associate Professor of Voice
lusmann@umich.edu
734-763-2157

Professor Stephen Lusmann (baritone) has sung leading roles with major opera houses including the Oper der Stadt Bonn, Opera de Monte Carlo, Stadttheater Luzern, Washington Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Boston Lyric Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Carolina, Opera Columbus, Anchorage Opera, Utah Opera, Opera Birmingham, Connecticut Grand Opera, Dayton Opera, Artpark, and tours with the New York City Opera under important conductors and directors including Leonard Slatkin, Christopher Keene, Bertrand de Billy, Franco Zefferelli, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Gian Carlo del Monaco. As an active concert soloist he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the Anchorage Festival of Music, Chautauqua Institute, and with numerous symphony orchestras such as the Buffalo Philharmonic, Sinfonieorchester Luzern, West Virginia Symphony, Little Orchestra Society of New York, and the Canton Symphony.

On recording he may be heard in Richard Strauss' opera Der Friedenstag recorded at Carnegie Hall on the Koch International label, Operngala recorded at the Konzerthaus Luzern, Switzerland on Tonstudio AMOS, and on E. E. CUMMINGS: An American Circus songs by Logan Skelton recorded on the Centaur Records label.

Until his appointment at Michigan, he maintained a private voice studio in New York City and Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Lusmann taught at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and at the West Virginia Governor's School for the Arts at Fairmont State College. In addition he is currently a member of the Voice Faculty at the Seagle Music Colony, the oldest continuous summer vocal training program in the United States.

His students are having great success performing professionally in opera, concert, musical theater, and young artist programs throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. They are also winning prestigious vocal competitions and are members of university voice faculties.

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