Deborah Sternberg

About the Artist

DEBORAH STERNBERG, described by critics as a “spine-tingling soprano” (Ben Demers, DC Theatre Scene), is praised for her flexibility, stage presence, and radiance of tone. Recent performances include art songs of Lili and Nadia Boulanger with Cantate Chamber Singers and Washington Master Chorale, respectively; duet recital Orpheus with a new chamber ensemble; featured soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra’s Play! A Video Game Symphony at Wolf Trap; and recitals for the Friday Morning Music Club and the Penn Alps music series. She has been the featured soloist in works by Benjamin Britten and Maurice Saylor during a Cantate Chamber Singers’ performance on WETA-FM’s Front Row Washington program. Ms.Sternberg premiered the role of Piney in Andrew E. Simpson’s 2012 opera The Outcasts of Poker Flat, which was presented at the Capital Fringe Festival and the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival. Ms. Sternberg is a winner of the 2007 state competitions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and has been featured as a soloist on recordings of the Cathedral Choral Society, Cantate Chamber Singers, and the St. Catherine of Siena Choir. She is currently a full-time artist with both The Washington Master Chorale and The Washington Chorus. Ms.Sternberg sang Gabriel Thibaudeau’s original score to the 1923 silent film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, composed for soprano, theatre organ, and violin, at the American Film Institute in Maryland in 2013. She has appeared as soloist with the Fairfax Symphony, and on the Kennedy Center stage. Her first full-length CD, Birds of Love and Prey, features new music written for Soprano and was released on the NAXOS label in February 2020. The CD received the Best Classical Music Album of 2021 by the DC Wammie Awards. Ms. Sternberg hails from New York, and holds degrees from University of Maryland and Duquesne University.