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 enjoys an active singing career in opera/musical theatre and on the concert stage. 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 Major General (The Pirates of Penzance) with the Saint Peter Choral Society and Remendado (Carmen) with the Valley Symphony Orchestra.

He also has a passion for the art of the song recital, and has performed over seventy solo recitals in Boston, Minneapolis, Houston, San Antonio, Wichita, and numerous other cities across the United States. His repertoire includes a broad range of 19th and 20th century art songs, especially the major song cycles of Schubert and Schumann, the lieder books of Wolf, and Russian songs. He has given numerous lecture recitals at state and national music conventions.  Equally at home in oratorio, he has performed as soloist in thirty-five works by such composers as Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Britten. 

He is Associate Professor of Music at Drury University where he teaches voice, voice related courses, and directs the Drury Opera. Previously, he taught voice and opera at Minnesota State University-Mankato, Gustavus Adolphus College, Pittsburg State University and the University of Texas-Pan American. He also spent four summers teaching voice and opera 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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