Biography
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 “a clear-voiced tenor with astonishing vocal agility in the highest tenor tessitura,” 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 Mercurio in Cavalli's La Calisto and Tamino in Mozart’s The Magic Flute to Rinuccio in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Martin in Copland’s The Tender Land. He has been featured as a soloist in works by Bach, Berio, Britten, Orff, 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.
His work spans concert and staged performance, including projects developed within residency and festival settings. His work has included projects associated with figures such as Kaija Saariaho, Susan Marshall, Jim Jarmusch, A. M. Homes, Barbara Hannigan, and Sir Simon Rattle. He partners in close creative work with composer Michael Markowski.
Beyond performance, his 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.
An advocate for holistic voice teaching, Stoddard believes that singing is as much an expression of the inner life as it is a physical act. He emphasizes mindful technique balanced with compassion, guiding artists to trust their own sensations and embrace creativity across genres. He acknowledges the guidance of all his teachers.
He 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. He is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.
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. Stoddard continues to develop projects that intertwine his dual passions for music and literature.