Baritone Steven Eddy is an accomplished concert artist and Baroque music specialist who has appeared both as a soloist and as a professional choral singer with many noteworthy American ensembles. His solo credits include appearances with The New York Philharmonic, The Oratorio Society of New York, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Classical Orchestra, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, and The Bach Choir of Bethlehem. He is also a regular choral artist with such ensembles as Seraphic Fire, The Thirteen, Spire Chamber Ensemble, True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Variant Six, and Choral Arts Philadelphia. 

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Equally adept on the opera stage, Mr. Eddy’s repertory includes Raimbaud (Le comte Ory), Pablo Picasso (After Life), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Charlie (Three Decembers), Sid (Albert Herring), Dancaïre (Carmen), Aeneas (Dido & Aeneas), Schaunard (La bohème), Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress), John Brooke (Little Women), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Dr. Pangloss/Voltaire (Candide). He has had the pleasure of performing with such companies and festivals as Fort Worth Opera, Opera Saratoga, Opera Birmingham, LoftOpera, Chelsea Opera, Aspen Opera Theater Center, Tanglewood Music Center, American Lyric Theater, Center for Contemporary Opera, Arbor Opera Theater, and the Seagle Music Colony.

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Mr. Eddy has received great praise as an interpreter of art song. He made his New York song recital début in October 2015 as a winner of the 2015 Joy in Singing Debut Artist Award. Since then, he has appeared as a frequent guest artist with Brooklyn Art Song Society and appeared with Philadelphia's LyricFest in the world premiere of Daron Hagen's song cycle The Art of Song. As a Marc & Eva Stern Fellow with SongFest at Colburn, he had the opportunity to collaborate on recitals and masterclasses with such luminaries as Graham Johnson, Rudolf Piernay, Jake Heggie, John Musto and Sanford Sylvan. Before this, he was a Vocal Arts Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center in 2012 and 2013, where he performed and collaborated with Stephanie Blythe, Alan Smith, and Håkan Hagegård. 

Mr. Eddy work is featured on several well-received recordings, including Paul Moravec's A Nation of Others on Lexicon Classics, Daron Hagen's The Art of Song with Naxos, Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg's Any of Those Decembers with Navona, The Garden: Songs and Vocal Chamber Music of Tom Cippulo with Albany Records, David Lang's prisoner of the state with Decca, and Monteverdi's Vespers with The Thirteen on Acis Productions.

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The 1st Prize winner of the 2019 Oratorio Society of New York Lyndon Woodside Competition and the 2015 Joy in Singing Debut Artist Award, Mr. Eddy also received prizes as a Regional Finalist of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, The Howard County Arts Council Rising Star Awards, and The University of Michigan Friends of Opera competitions. He is a recipient of the Earl V. Moore Award in Music from the University of Michigan and was a finalist in the Dallas Opera Guild and Connecticut Opera Guild competitions.

An accomplished vocal teacher, Mr. Eddy previously served on the faculties of The College of New Jersey and Swarthmore College. He is also the creator of The Choir Collective, an online vocal training program for choral singers. 

 

Mr. Eddy received his training at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, and New York University. 

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Updated September 2025

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