Timothy Stoddard, native of Idaho, is an award-winning vocal musician and actor who focuses his time and interests in new music, works for the stage, and oratorio. His repertoire spans that of early music, chamber music, works of Broadway, traditional opera, and world premiere pieces, being engaged in the United States, as well as Europe and Asia.
TAROT--my debut album with the superlative pianist Ellen Fast--aims to create repertoire for the catalog of contemporary art song for tenor and piano by utilizing the voices of a diverse cohort of young American composers, poets, and musicians.
This album has origins which go some years back to when I was working in Norway. On a day off spent wandering Oslo, I envisioned an album for myself which would feature songs of living American composers. The seed for TAROT germinated during many life changes, from personal illness to the tribulations of our greater world. A profound desire to reach out for understanding during such a dramatic period in my life found me riffling through the tarot deck once again.
Some of the pieces heard in this album had their genesis while I was resident tenor in the Composers & the Voice fellowship of the American Opera Project. The collaborators that make up the body of TAROT are people I am fortunate to call colleagues and friends, and I feel proud and grateful to be able to advocate for their craft--to stand alongside their work as an interpreter.
Through life and death, love and destruction, TAROT weaves itself by way of lyric and melodic line. This act of creation momentarily reacquaints us with the enigma of mortality but also asks us to consider what it means to be alive. It calls to us from the ether:
Beware the one who comes with rope.
In works ranging from Baroque to Classical, Timothy has interpreted the titular role in Mozart’s LA CLEMENZA DI TITO, Mercurio in Cavalli’s LA CALISTO, Milord Fideling in the American premiere of Salieri’s LA CIFRA, all with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, as well as Tamino in THE MAGIC FLUTE with the Muses Creative Artistry Project, and the First Armored Man and First Priest in the same work with Opera in Williamsburg. He appeared as Lucano/Liberto in Monteverdi’s L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA with Bare Opera. Oratorio engagements include tenor soloist for the B MINOR MASS with the Utah Festival of Opera and Musical Theater, as well as Purcell’s WELCOME TO ALL THE PLEASURES + ODES TO ST. CECILIA with the Pittsburgh Camerata and Chatham Baroque. He was also concertist in Mendelssohn’s ELIJAH with the Choral Society of Grace Church in NYC. He made his WQXR debut in 2018 singing a chiefly 20th-century English aria/theater song program on YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE with Bob Sherman. Timothy is passionate about 20th-century music and new works by living composers. He has sung the role of Izzy Wright in a virtual reality production of Sankaram's MIRANDA with Tri Cities Opera, and has premiered roles with Experiments in Opera and Rhymes with Opera. At the Lucerne Festival, he has sung as soloist in Berio’s CORO, which he has also recorded with The Norwegian Soloist Choir and Norwegian Radio Orchestra. At the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, he sang ensemble in Saariaho’s L’AMOUR DE LOIN. He has been a resident singer of the American Opera Project's Composers & the Voice fellowship.
Timothy Stoddard, native of Idaho, is an award-winning vocal musician and actor who focuses his time and interests in new music, works for the stage, and oratorio. His repertoire spans that of early music, chamber music, works of Broadway, traditional opera, and world premiere pieces, being engaged in the United States, as well as Europe and Asia.
TAROT--my debut album with the superlative pianist Ellen Fast--aims to create repertoire for the catalog of contemporary art song for tenor and piano by utilizing the voices of a diverse cohort of young American composers, poets, and musicians.
This album has origins which go some years back to when I was working in Norway. On a day off spent wandering Oslo, I envisioned an album for myself which would feature songs of living American composers. The seed for TAROT germinated during many life changes, from personal illness to the tribulations of our greater world. A profound desire to reach out for understanding during such a dramatic period in my life found me riffling through the tarot deck once again.
Some of the pieces heard in this album had their genesis while I was resident tenor in the Composers & the Voice fellowship of the American Opera Project. The collaborators that make up the body of TAROT are people I am fortunate to call colleagues and friends, and I feel proud and grateful to be able to advocate for their craft--to stand alongside their work as an interpreter.
Through life and death, love and destruction, TAROT weaves itself by way of lyric and melodic line. This act of creation momentarily reacquaints us with the enigma of mortality but also asks us to consider what it means to be alive. It calls to us from the ether:
Beware the one who comes with rope.
In works ranging from Baroque to Classical, Timothy has interpreted the titular role in Mozart’s LA CLEMENZA DI TITO, Mercurio in Cavalli’s LA CALISTO, Milord Fideling in the American premiere of Salieri’s LA CIFRA, all with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, as well as Tamino in THE MAGIC FLUTE with the Muses Creative Artistry Project, and the First Armored Man and First Priest in the same work with Opera in Williamsburg. He appeared as Lucano/Liberto in Monteverdi’s L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA with Bare Opera. Oratorio engagements include tenor soloist for the B MINOR MASS with the Utah Festival of Opera and Musical Theater, as well as Purcell’s WELCOME TO ALL THE PLEASURES + ODES TO ST. CECILIA with the Pittsburgh Camerata and Chatham Baroque. He was also concertist in Mendelssohn’s ELIJAH with the Choral Society of Grace Church in NYC. He made his WQXR debut in 2018 singing a chiefly 20th-century English aria/theater song program on YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE with Bob Sherman. Timothy is passionate about 20th-century music and new works by living composers. He has sung the role of Izzy Wright in a virtual reality production of Sankaram's MIRANDA with Tri Cities Opera, and has premiered roles with Experiments in Opera and Rhymes with Opera. At the Lucerne Festival, he has sung as soloist in Berio’s CORO, which he has also recorded with The Norwegian Soloist Choir and Norwegian Radio Orchestra. At the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, he sang ensemble in Saariaho’s L’AMOUR DE LOIN. He has been a resident singer of the American Opera Project's Composers & the Voice fellowship.
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