Biography

East Coast Soprano Stephanie Hollenberg is a versatile performing artist, educator, and church leader. In past seasons, Stephanie performed the role of Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro with Boston Opera Collaborative, and sang the Soprano solo in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with Goshen College orchestra and choirs. Other appearances include Gretel in Humperdinck’s beloved Hänsel und Gretel, Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and an Esprit in Massenet’s magical Cendrillon at the Music Academy International Trentino Festival in Italy. In New England Stephanie has sung with MetroWest Opera as Leonora in Dan Shore’s The Beautiful Bridegroom, the North End Performing Arts Center covering the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Cambridge Chamber Ensemble as Marguelonne in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon, and Boston Opera Collaborative in several new, short-form operas including Holly in Rapture by David Wolf, Bess in the poignant Sunshine Girl by UK composer Sam Wilson, and Stephanie in Eva Kendrick’s hilarious Misfortune. A lover and devotee of art song, Stephanie performs regular recitals, tapping the vast and rich body of art song. Stephanie received her M.M. in Vocal Performance from The Longy School of Music. She has studied with Carol Mastrodomenico and Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet.

Along with her beautiful voice and sensitive musicality, Stephanie brings a captivating presence and moving transparency to the stage, informed by her passion for spirituality. In addition to performing and teaching private voice lessons, Stephanie has worked with several church communities in the Boston area, serving as Song Leader at Hillside Community Church, lay leader at the Mennonite Congregation of Boston, and designer and co-host of the Swedenborg Chapel’s monthly Taizé service of prayer. Having received a B.A. in Bible and Religion from Goshen College, she has a keen interest in ecumenism, leading her to spend time with the Taizé Community in France and the Iona Community in Scotland. Her interest in other faith traditions has also taken her to Colombia, Morocco, and Cambodia, all of which have nurtured her interest in diverse musical and liturgical traditions, and thus shaping her own performance practice and musical leadership in both sacred and secular settings.

Most recently, Stephanie completed an M.Div. at Harvard Divinity School (class of 2024), where she trained as a chaplain and worked at the intersection of music and spiritual care. For her thesis she wrote a one-act chamber musical entitled At Love’s Hearth in collaboration with composer Jonathan Shin, and workshopped it with a group of local professional musicians while experimenting with what it might look like to offer performing artists spiritual care. At Love’s Hearth premiered at Harvard Divinity School in March 2024 in a concert performance of the piece.

Stephanie resides on Abenaki land in Vermont where she and her husband, Anglo-Irish singer-songwriter Luke Concannon, are growing a home.