Stephanie Coldwell-Anderson

Lyric Soprano is a native of the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. She specializes as a classical vocal performance soloist, but enjoys singing folk, sacred, musical theatre, pop, and jazz music. Stephanie has been singing as a soloist since childhood as part of school, church, community choirs and opera company. The effect of being involved in these events and being exposed to music at a young age left a lasting impression and a love for music. Stephanie went on to study music at Acadia University ( BAM 2004 and BM 2006 ) and later went on to study at the University of Ottawa (MMus 2008). As a soloist and choral singer Stephanie has performed in solo recitals, musical theatre, opera, oratorio, church services, community fairs, music festivals and weddings throughout Eastern Canada and England.

She has studied voice under Ingemar Korjus, Marie (Anderson) McCarthy and Susan Dworkin-Hachey. She studied piano under Jessica Hanson , Ron Tomarelli and Sara Brooks. In her early piano years she was a student of Canadian Composer Anne Crosby. With over 10 years of professional experience, Stephanie maintains a thriving music studio teaching voice and piano, as well as theory classes.

A member of SOCAN, Stephanie has begun to write children's songs and folk-world music. Stephanie's debut children's EP was released March 12th 2015. Along with love song Crossed the Divide -single on May 6, 2015. She is currently working on more material to be released . She currently has five classical singles available through itunes, amazon and cdbaby.
Her career goals in vocal performance, as well as in vocal and piano pedagogy has enabled her to bring music and joy into the lives of people of all ages.

Stephanie has over 10 years of teaching experience in vocal, piano and rudiments classes and has successfully prepared students for exams and auditions including auditions for school and community musicals, performing arts high schools and university entry auditions. Stephanie has had students accepted at the following universities and colleges to study voice or musical theatre: St. Lawrence College, Kingston ON- Music Theatre; Cambrian College Academy of Music, Sudbury ON; McMaster University, Hamilton, ON; York University, Toronto, ON; Queens University, Kingston, ON; University of Western Ontario, London, ON; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, and Wilfrid Laurier University, ON.

When Stephanie is not teaching and singing, she enjoys spending her time with her husband, family and friends,cooking, reading, traveling, watching movies , learning Japanese and learning new things.