Stephen Grant
Convenor of Voice and Early Music
T: +61 3 9035 9433
E: sjgrant@unimelb.edu.au
Stephen Grant was born in Montreal, Canada. He studied organ and voice in Canada before moving to Germany in 1987 to begin singing professionally. There he established working relationships with some of Europe’s best-known early music ensembles - Sequentia, the Ferrara Ensemble, Ensemble Organum de Paris,The Huelgas Ensemble and others, concertising widely and making over twenty CD recordings.
Stephen's interest in varied repertoires has led him to perform a broad range of music, from the medieval repertoire and baroque opera (Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Telemann’s Pimpinone) to premieres of a number of contemporary works by Saariaho (Paris), Fritsch (Bonn), Staub (Göteborg and Saarbrücken), the Australian premiere of Jüdische Chronik, the Geminiani production of Viktor Ullmann’s Emperor of Atlantisas well as mainstream 19th and 20th century repertoire.
He has given master classes at Australia’s National Academy of Music and the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland and directs a number of vocal ensembles, including e21.
An interest in posture and movement and the influence it has on performing enhancement led him to study the Feldenkrais Method of movement education in the USA. Since then Stephen Grant has combined his knowledge of the method with his years of performing and singing teaching to develop workshops for singers and musicians which he has given in the USA, Norway, Switzerland, Germany and Australia.
