Stephanie conducted Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at Cambridge University’s St. John’s College Chapel on October 27th, 2017.

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“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:

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.”

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.

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