2pm, Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Join us in celebrating the season with an afternoon of holiday favorites and operatic classics performed by soprano Stephanie Northcutt and pianist Beth McConnell.

Stephanie Northcutt maintains an active professional singing career and has performed a wide range of operatic roles, oratorio and recital performances throughout the United States and Europe. After completing her undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University and her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Sam Houston State University, she held a number of prestigious artist residencies, including Portland Opera’s Performing Institute, Caramoor Festival, Minnesota Opera and Chautauqua Opera. Ms. Northcutt is a past member of the Opera Program at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. She returned abroad to perform the title role in “The Merry Widow” with Operafestival di roma -Rome, Italy. Recent Performances included the role of the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. She sang the role of Maria in West Side Story presented on the Promenade Series here at The Centrum. Past performances at The Centrum include Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Micaela in Carmen, Mimi in La Boheme, and Violetta in La Traviata. Stephanie has also been a frequent Guest Artist at Duke University where she performed “The Last for Songs of Strauss”, sang the role of The Countess in Le nozze di Figaro and was the Soprano Soloist for their performance of the Brahms Requiem. Stephanie is thrilled to be back on the Promenade series this season. 

Stephanie is the Music Director in The School of Theater at Alvin College and also maintains her private voice studio in Missouri City where she lives with her husband Gary and their two sons, Jake and Zach. 

Beth McConnell is a musician who has had the honor to serve as a piano soloist and accompanist for numerous other fellow musicians and musical groups across the nation. She studied classical piano under John Weems and played the Gershwin Concerto with the Houston Symphony and other orchestras when she was 15. She continued her studies with Nancy Weems at the University of Houston, and later studied jazz piano with Joe Locascio and pipe organ with Robert Brewer.

She is the pianist/ keyboardist/ organist at Christ Church Sugarland Methodist Church, where she enjoys playing a variety of styles, whether Gospel, Classical, Jazz, or Contemporary.

In addition to music, her other love is the study of human consciousness and healing: she has a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Psychotherapy, and spent many years studying brain wave biofeedback with the late Anna Wise, a pioneering researcher in the study of brainwave training utilizing the Mind Mirror EEG and the Awakened Mind Protocol.

Lastly, for the past 20 years, Beth has been a student and practitioner of one of our nation’s most respected and scientifically studied healers, Rosalyn Bruyere, who teaches the art and science of laying on of hands healing;

When not working or healing, Beth enjoys playing the tin whistle, and being taken on long meandering walks with her rescue dogs Simba, a senior lab mix, and Moriah Flyer Holy Spitfire, a year-old German Shepherd/Whippet mix, (basically a German Shippit 😉

Performance Location: The Centrum, 6823 Cypresswood Dr., Spring 77379
Date & Time: 2:00 p.m., December 10, 2024
Tickets: $18 Adult, $15 Senior, $12 Child/Student, $12 Groups of 6 or more
Season Ticket Sales: On Sale Now – $145 Adult, $120 Senior, $95 Child/Student
Single Ticket Sales: 9am, Thursday, August 1, 2024