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, He 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 Seventeen 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, Helena, and Missoula Symphony Orchestras, as well as the String Orchestra of the Rockies and the Missoula Childrens Theater. Recently, he sang the role of Sumatsi in Poia, an opera by Arthur Nevin based on the Blackfeet legend of Scarface, in Great Falls for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial celebration, A Book of Days with Meredith Monk at the World Financial Center and Benjamin at Franklin and Marshall College. His recent recordings include Harry Partch’s The Wayward on Wergo Records, the Minnesota Opera recording of William Harper’s Snow Leopard, in which he plays role of the Potter on CafePress Records, and the title role of Benjamin Franklin in John Carbon’s Benjamin on Zimbel Records. This fall he gave perfomances of the Seventeen Lyrics of Li Po at the Bern Biennale 2008 in Switzerland and the Beyond Baroque concert series in Los Angeles.
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 currently Interim Dean of the School of Fine Arts at The University of Montana. He appreciates his wonderful family, which includes his wife Robin, his daughter Anna, and his son Evan, for their support of his singing habit!
Contact Dr. Kalm: stephen.kalm@umontana.edu