Stephanie Kruskol is an internationally acclaimed soprano based in the greater Washington, D.C. area. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Voice Performance from The Peabody Conservatory, and specializes in concert works and new music. Most recently, she was awarded the prize for the best performance of a Russian Art Song in the 2018 Amber Nightingale Song Competition in Kaliningrad, Russia, where she was the only competitor from the United States. She was the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem at the Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival, as well as Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Haydn’s Paukenmesse with the Baltimore Bach Concert Series. Other solo engagements include Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. She has been involved in several world premieres, including premiering the role of Roxy in Do Not Disturb, a new comic opera by Sean Pflueger and Laura Fuentes which debuted at the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival, and was the featured soprano soloist in Jerry Ascione’s piece entitled One Hundred Eighty-Seven with the New England Wind Symphony. On the operatic stage, she has performed the role of Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Estates Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic. Other operatic roles include Suor Dolcina in Suor Angelica, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Flora in The Turn of the Screw, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, and Despina in Così fan tutte.