Timothy Stoddard
Timothy Stoddard is a lyric tenor and author whose artistry bridges music and literature with emotional attunement, textual clarity, and tonal refinement. Hailed by Opera News as a “clear-voiced tenor,” his repertoire spans early music, chamber music, Broadway, traditional opera, and world premieres performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
His roles range from Tamino in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Milord Fideling in Salieri’s La cifra to Eisenstein in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus and Martin in Copland’s The Tender Land, and he has been featured as a soloist in works by Bach, Berio, Britten, Purcell, Mendelssohn, and numerous living composers. Notably, he has premiered several operatic roles with innovative companies such as Experiments in Opera and The American Opera Project.
Highlights of Timothy Stoddard’s career include singing the music of composer Kaija Saariaho during her residency in Trondheim and working under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle. He has been mentored by Barbara Hannigan and other notable authorities, collaborated on projects connected to author A.M. Homes and National Book Award finalists, and participated in a Guggenheim Works & Process residency with Anthony Roth Costanzo, featuring the music of Phil Klein with films by Jim Jarmusch. He partners with Michael Markowski.
Beyond performance, Timothy’s work as a writer explores themes of belief, memory, and the natural world, engaging allegory and narrative to evoke complex emotional landscapes. He holds degrees from the University of Idaho and the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
A passionate advocate for holistic voice teaching, Timothy believes that singing is as much an expression of the inner life as it is a physical act. He emphasizes technique balanced with compassion, guiding artists to trust their own sensations and embrace creativity across diverse genres.
Timothy has been a fellow at the Lucerne Festival and a resident tenor for the American Opera Project’s Composers & the Voice fellowship. His singing has been featured on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase and WQED’s Performance in Pittsburgh. His community engagement includes collaborations with the Metropolitan Opera and the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
His debut album, TAROT (Navona Records), and debut novel, Bluestone Folklore (Cobblestone Publishing Group), were released in 2023. He is a recipient of awards from the Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh Concert Society, American Scandinavian Society, and others. Timothy continues to develop projects that intertwine his dual passions for music and literature.
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Clair de lune, Fauré + Chanson triste, Duparc
Clair de lune, Fauré + Chanson triste, Duparc
The Hermit & The Wheel of Fortune from TAROT
Je crois entendre encore from Les pêcheurs de perles
"Orange" performed by Timothy Stoddard and Ellen Fast
Tarot
What do you get when you tailor both music and lyrics to a tenor of brilliant clarity? A profound, cerebral, sensuous and at times even mystical experience, as demonstrated by vocalist Timothy Stoddard on his riveting new album TAROT. Born out of a year-long, close-knit collaboration between Stoddard, pianist Ellen Fast, and a diverse assortment of composers and librettists, TAROT proves the Aristotelian assertion that the whole is even more than the sum of its parts.
These scintillating new vocal compositions all touch upon the vast mysteries of the great unknown wherever it overlaps with the human condition – be it in love, in death or in the occult. TAROT conjures an enchanting, dizzying, dreamlike universe – and Stoddard’s crystal-clear tenor is the effervescent guide.
TAROT, Navona Records, 2023 (Performers: Stoddard, Fast composers: Markowski, Ferris, Lanci, Prescott)
Britten
Sonnet
Britten
Nocturne
Britten
Pastorale
Hahn
L'heure exquise
Berio: Coro & Cries of London
Luciano Berio’s Coro has been described as the work that ‘exemplifies all the qualities that made him one of the leading composers of our time’. The work’s full title is ‘Coro for voices and instruments’, and the 40 voices and 44 instrumentalists do indeed make up a single choir – instrumentalists and singers sit together, with each singer paired with a particular player, and used both as soloists and combined in mass effects.
Coro / Cries of London (BIS Records) with the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and Norwegian Radio Orchestra
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“Timothy Stoddard brought suitable hardness to the roles of Lucano and Liberto."
“Tenor Timothy Stoddard sang fluidly as Milord.”
"Timothy Stoddard astonished us with his vocal agility…in the highest reaches of the tenor tessitura."
"Timothy Stoddard…brought a likably flowing tenor to Milord."
“Timothy Stoddard brought gravitas…an unexpectedly moving and disheartening ‘Everyman.’”
“Stoddard exploited his fine, strong voice and physical gifts to the fullest…if Mercury can’t be mercurial, who can?”
“Stoddard’s Walter was a tall, goofy kid…seemingly dropped into LA from another planet.”
“Stoddard’s powerhouse voice brought the audience to tears.”
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“Stoddard was an exciting and kinetic performer…with a beautiful voice and crystal-clear diction.”
“Timothy Stoddard…dripped silver-spoon noblesse oblige and offered a lean, sweet-toned tenor.”
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Writing
What if the world is too blinded by dogma to recognize the sacred presence right in front of its eyes?
In the isolation of the Bluestone Woodland, all life pivots around an ancient apple tree. The human world across the river is deeply obsessed with fixed, unyielding religious ideas — indifferent to the subtle, living currents of the natural world. When a white-faced yearling named Saint is born into the herd during a time of looming darkness, her presence begins to alter the spiritual fabric of the forest.
Bluestone Folklore
"There are shining moments... grotesquely horrific as the boundary between
human and flora blurs."
"A tender hymn to the fragile pulse between creation and decay... razor sharp
in its sensory truths."
As a violent local campaign called "Thin the Herd" escalates, the lines of grace and survival collide. Moving between the perspectives of the deer clan, a reclusive painter prophetic in his grief, his friend, the Woman, and the Man with the Crooked Finger—a hunter across the river—this hauntingly poetic, dark pastoral narrative unfolds. Timothy Stoddard’s masterful debut, Bluestone Folklore, is a radical, subversive critique of spiritual blindness, exploring the visceral boundaries between nature, trauma, and a rewilded mysticism that refuses to be tamed by human hands.
Perfect for readers of Jeff VanderMeer, Barbara Kingsolver, and high-concept, transgressive literary fiction, Bluestone Folklore challenges everything you think you know about sacrifice, survival, and the true face of the sacred.
"A haunting, artistic debut... rich with biblical symbolism."
