“Manifestly courageous” (Boston Globe) and “inspired” (New York Times) soprano Stacey Mastrian is a Fulbright Grantee, Beebe Fellow, and Richard F. Gold Career Grant recipient.  Her repertoire extends from Hildegard von Bingen and Beatriz de Día to Machaut and Monteverdi, through Mozart and Verdi to the present, and she has sung in more than two dozen languages. In addition to standard classical repertoire, she specializes in art song, Italian vocal music, 20th- and 21st-century vocal works, and works that highlight social issues and innovation.  Highly sought-after as performer of works by Luigi Nono and his Italian predecessors and contemporaries, American composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, and those influenced by them, as well as women and other underrepresented composers, she is frequently the catalyst behind collaborative multi-disciplinary creative partnerships and events to share these works.

Dr. Mastrian has received awards from The American Bach Society/Bethlehem Bach Choir, International Joseph Traxel Society, Maryland Opera Society, Mu Phi Epsilon, National Association of Teachers of Singing, National Italian American Foundation, Rosa Ponselle Foundation, Seattle Opera Guild, Shoshana Foundation, and Vocal Arts DC.  She has been honored with scholarship support to attend the SongFest professional program and a Max Kade scholarship for the German for Singers program at Middlebury College, and she received Second Place from The American Prize in Vocal Performance (Women in Art Song and Oratorio), 2017-18—The Friedrich and Virginia Schorr Memorial Award.

Dr. Mastrian has given dozens of lectures, masterclasses, and recitals in over half of the states in the U.S., as well as in British Columbia and Mexico. She has been Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Voice at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College and has taught at American University, Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, and University of Maryland College Park. Dr. Mastrian runs an independent voice studio and is a diction coach and functional anatomy facilitator.