Faculty
Stephen Kalm
Stephen Kalm has sung with many of America's leading regional opera companies including the Houston Grand Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Minnesota Opera, Connecticut Opera, Cincinnati Opera, The Pennsylvania Opera Theatre. Internationally, Dr. Kalm received critical acclaim for his solo's in Orff's Carmina Burana with the Filarmonica de Bogota, and in the role of Franco Hartmann in Meredith Monk's Atlas in Berlin, Paris and London. He has recorded that work for ECM, as well as Ben Johnston's Five Fragments for New World Records, and the premiere recording of Harry Partch's 17 Lyrics of Li Po for Tzadik Records.
Other engagements include Meredith Monk's opera,The Politics of Quiet, for which he received a New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award . He has also been a featured soloist at The Next Wave Festival at BAM, The Lincoln Center Festival, The Knitting Factory, The European Cultural Capital Festival in Copenhagen, the Avignon Festival, the Spoleto USA Festival, and the Encontros Arcarte Festival in Lisbon. In the Northwest he has performed with the Billings, Bozeman, Butte, and Missoula Symphony Orchestras, as well as the String Orchestra of the Rockies and Missoula Childrens Theater. Mr. Kalm most recently recorded Harry Partch's The Wayward, released in 2003 on Wergo Records. This past summer he sang the role of Sumatsi in Poia, an opera by Arthur Nevin based on the Blackfeet legend of Scarface in Great Falls. This past year included engagements with Meredith Monk at the World Financial Center, the title role in John Carbon's Bejamin at Franklin and Marshall College and baritone soloist in Vaughn Williams A Sea Symphony with the Helena Symphony.
Dr. Kalm has a B.M. in vocal performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, an M.A. in performance and literature from Queens College and a D.M.A from City University of New York. He is a Professor of Voice and Chair of the Department of Music at The University of Montana.
Contact Dr. Kalm: stephen.kalm@umontana.edu