Marc Stingley

Marc Stingley is highly regarded for his impressive musical background. “The solo vocal parts were taken to fine effect and beautifully sung,” The New York Times wrote of Mr. Stingley. The Chicago Tribune said, “He has a clear, pure tenor voice that never waivers.”

Mr. Stingley received his Bachelor of Music Degree at the University of Kansas and worked on his Masters Diploma at both the St. Louis Conservatory of Music and Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria. Prior to his tenure in Vienna, he twice received vocal fellowships from the Tanglewood Festival. While at Tanglewood, he received the High Fidelity/Musical America Award and performed a Stephen Paulus world premiere with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He sang the role of Tamino in a European Tour of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and was the tenor soloist for numerous concerts and recitals, including a performance of Schumann’s Dichterliebe with pianist Jorg Demus. Mr. Stingley has recorded an Austrian National Radio broadcast singing Italian arias. He has sung roles with Aspen Opera Theater Center, Lake George Opera Festival, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Knoxville Civic Opera, Mississippi Opera, Chicago Opera Theater and sang a recital series in Boston and Chicago for UNICEF. Mr. Stingley has been tenor soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, as well as winning the Nakamichi Vocal Competition and finalist in the MacAllister Opera Awards.

Most recently he sang Händel’s Messiah with the New York Chamber Orchestra, a recital for Evanston’s “First Night” celebration, musical theater concerts with Grand Rapids Symphony, Lafayette Symphony and Elgin Symphony Orchestra and a series of “Three Tenors” concerts on Pawleys Island, South Carolina and for the Lyric Opera of Chicago Guild. He recorded arias written by women composers for an Austrian National Radio broadcast and performed as a tenor soloist for Vienna’s millennium celebration. In addition Mr. Stingley has received critical acclaim for his many performances of musical theater with symphony orchestras. In addition, Mr. Stingley is highly acclaimed as National Anthem soloist for the Chicago Bulls, maintains a very successful voice studio and is in demand as a clinician, adjudicator and teacher.