Stephanie is a Brazilian-American vocalist, composer, and educator based in São Paulo whose music centers the use of the voice without words, both as a bandleader and sideperson.

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They are inspired by a wide range of musical languages, such as contemporary classical music, free improvisation, jazz, MPB (Brazilian popular music), and Brazilian instrumental music. Stephanie’s original music projects include pieces arranged or composed for solo voice and piano, for unaccompanied vocal duo, and for jazz sextet.

An advocate for the inclusion of the voice in instrumental and/or less conventional settings, Stephanie is an in-demand sideperson, having worked with artists such as André Marques, Salomão Soares, Tatiana Parra, Gaia Wilmer, Pritesh Walia, Maria Schneider, and Antonio Sanchez. Stephanie develops a number of musical projects as a composer and leader, such as "Mímica" (ensemble of voices and wind instruments), "Respiro" (Voice and piano duo with Luis Chamis), and "Chululu" (vocal duo of Brazilian music re-compositions with Isabel Crespo Pardo). In 2021, she released the album "Choro Party Progression", a suite for sextet.

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Stephanie is also an active educator and organizer, passionate about the conscious use of the voice as a tool for musical creation. They maintain a private studio and are currently a lecturer at Berklee Global Partner Souza Lima Conservatório & Faculdade, as well as having taught various workshops and courses on improvisation and instrumental voice. In 2024, Stephanie was a teaching artist at the 41º Oficina de Música de Curitiba.

 

Stephanie received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University, where she studied with Bruce Barth, Helen Sung, and Christine Correa, and went on to complete a master's of music at the New England Conservatory, There she learned from artists such as Dominique Eade, Frank Carlberg, Miguel Zenon, Jason Moran, and Henrique Eisenmann. She is currently a student of composition and arranging at EMESP-Tom Jobim, in São Paulo, where she studies under Tiago Costa and Nelson Ayres.