Stephanie conducted Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at Cambridge University’s St. John’s College Chapel on October 27th, 2017.
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Stephanie conducted Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at Cambridge University’s St. John’s College Chapel on October 27th, 2017.
Watch a preview for this exclusive concert:
Extract:
“In an interview with Alina Khakoo, co-founder of Girl Talk, Stephanie Childress talks about her abandoned ice-skating career, being at one with her … violin and working out her next move.”
Full interview with Alina Khakoo at Cambridgegirltalk.co.uk >
In July, 2017, Stephanie Childress was the Artistic Director for the Young Virtuosi Summer Classical Music Festival held in the south of France. This was the 10th consecutive year of the festival and Stephanie has played solo violin and ensemble performances in all previous festivals. Her role as Artistic Director was to source the musicians and determine the repertoire. This year 9 musicians, including a Baritone and Mezzo-Soprano thrilled audiences in 7 different concert venues in Medieval churches in villages in and around the town of Limoux. Each concert featured different pieces and ended around 11pm with standing ovations and calls for encores!
Stephanie Childress is interviewed in the first Cambridge University Varsity Magazine video about her roles as a violinist and conductor.
On the 26th, 27th and 28th of January, 2017, Stephanie Childress will be conducting the Benjamin Britten opera, The Rape of Lucretia at St. John’s College, Cambridge Univeristy with an all student orchestra and opera singers. She is both Musical Director and Conductor for this first ever St. John’s opera production.
To read a review of the St. John’s College Music Society production of The Rape of Lucretia, click here.
The happy, and exhausted cast at the end of their three day run:
In December 2016, Stephanie led the Balsom Ensemble for Alison Balsom’s tour of Germany. Having not previously played the baroque violin, Stephanie learned with Pavlo Beznosiuk in the months running up to the tour and now plans on further pursuing baroque music.
13.12.2016 Nuremberg
Venue: Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg
14.12.2016 Hamburg
Venue: Laeiszhalle Hamburg
16.12.2016 Braunschweig
Venue: Stadthalle Braunschweig
17.12.2016 Hannover
Venue: Großer NDR-Sendesaal
18.12.2016 Dusseldorf
Venue: Tonhalle Dusseldorf
20.12.2016 London
Venue: Wigmore Hall
NYMT – National Youth Music Theatre
In 2016 Stephanie was named as one of the Assistant Music Directors for the National Youth Music Theatre’s 2016 season. She has been heavily involved in coaching singers and ensembles in the 2016 production of Brass. Previously a musician in the company, she felt enormously honoured to have been asked onto the creative team. “Being apart of the creative process has been such an amazing experience. You really feel the work you put in is making a difference since with a new production, you essentially start from scratch. The actors have been so committed and focused, particularly during long vocal sessions which often last well into the night.”
Imperial War Museum
Western Front Violin
The Imperial War Museum in London hosted a special evening of World War I songs, cinema and readings to commemorate the night before the epic Battle of the Somme. Stephanie was given the honour of playing the closing piece on the museum’s Western Front Violin, made following the war from trees growing near the battlefields. She played Apre un Reve, Op 7 by Gariel Faure to an appreciative crowd just before midnight.
For the past several years, Stephanie has played with her favourite accompanist, Kumi Matsuo. Kumi was born in Tokyo, Japan and is winner of the 5th Louisiana International Piano Competition in 2013. She has also won Second Prize at the 75th Music Competition of Japan in 2006, Third Prize at the 22nd Ferrol International Piano Competition in 2008 and First Prize at the 6th Isidor Bajic International Piano Competition in 2012.