Stephen Bomgardner
Associate Professor, Voice and Opera

B.M. (1985) Fort Hays State University M.M. (1989) Rice University D.M.A. (1997) Boston University 207 O' Bannon Hall 417-873-7388

Stephen Bomgardner combines an active singing career with a full-time teaching career. Engagements in 2010-2011 include recitals in Minneapolis, Mankato (MN), Malibu (CA), Memphis and Springfield (MO), and the role of Spoletta (Tosca) with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra.

He has performed over 100 recitals in Boston, Seattle, Kansas City, New Orleans, Houston, and numerous other cities across the United States. He has given dozens of lecture recitals at regional and national conferences of the College Music Society and state music conventions such as the Texas Music Educators Association. In oratorio and concert works, he has performed as soloist in thirty-five different works by such composers as Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Britten. 

In opera, he specializes in character and buffo tenor roles, and in the patter roles of Gilbert and Sullivan. His repertoire includes twenty-six different roles such as Basilio (The Marriage of Figaro), Vasek (The Bartered Bride), and Jack Point (The Yeoman of the Guard). Most recently he performed the role of the Goro (Madama Butterfly) with SRO Lyric Theatre and King Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors) with the Messiah Project.

He is Associate Professor of Music at Drury University where he teaches voice, music history, and directs the Drury Opera. Previously, he taught at Minnesota State University-Mankato, Gustavus Adolphus College, Pittsburg State University and the University of Texas-Pan American. He also spent four summers teaching at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), the high school component of the Tanglewood Music Festival. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance from Boston University's School of Music, the Master of Music from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, and the Bachelor of Music from Fort Hays State University.

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