Stefan Reed

Stefan Reed, is delighted to be joining Portland Bach Experience this summer. Originally from Glasgow, Virginia, Mr. Reed is currently based in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts and is enjoying an active chamber music, oratorio, and recording career with performances and projects in New England and throughout the country. 

Mr. Reed’s voice has been characterized as an “intense, focused, lyric tenor” (Miami Herald), his performances have been described as “dramatically expressive and technically impressive” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). He performs regularly with Boston Baroque, Blue Heron, Conspirare, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H), and Seraphic Fire. Recent solo engagements include Telemann's Lukas-Passion with Boston Baroque; Bach's Mass in B Minor and Magnificat and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with H+H; Purcell’s King Arthur with the Henry Purcell Society of Boston; Beethoven's Mass in C with the Chorus of Westerly; Schubert’s Mass in G with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra; Mozart's Mass in C with Coro Allegro; Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. with the Arcadia Players and the Worcester Chorus; Handel’s Messiah with the Concord Chorus and Orchestra; Mozart's Requiem and Haydn's Missa in tempore belli with the Dedham Choral Society; Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Boston Cecilia; as well as Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610, Mozart's Requiem, and Purcell’s King Arthur with the Miami-based ensemble Seraphic Fire and the Firebird Chamber Orchestra. Other performance highlights include Mozart's Requiem, and Schumann’s Paradise and the Peri with the Back Bay Chorale, and numerous performances with the the Mount Vernon Symphony, Marsh Chapel Choir and Collegium, the Tanglewood Chamber Music Ensemble, and both the Boston and Maryland Masterworks Chorales. 

Mr. Reed spent two summers as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival. He holds performance degrees from the New England Conservatory and George Mason University.