REVIEWS

"Baritone Stephen Lancaster….slips well into the role of poet/musician required to project these songs proper essence. As called upon, his voice is at times lyrical and tender, or passionately determined."
 - Classical Music Sentinel, 2021 review of “Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe & Liederkreis, Op. 39,” Blue Griffin

"...baritone Stephen Lancaster projected the pathos of the Libera me with great strength."
 - New York Concert Review, 2015 review of Duruflé Requiem, DCINY at Carnegie Hall

"Lancaster is varied in tone and alive to feeling….he is engaged in his performances, and the recital ends in excellent fashion, with Lancaster almost conversational in his directness of communication."
- Fanfare Magazine, 2015 review of “Le Menu des Mélodies,” Centaur Records

"Lancaster...shows good interpretive skill with these songs, coloring his voice to fit the text...and employing a wide range of expression and dynamics. He's a fine storyteller-singer who sounds like he is having fun with the animal songs."
 - American Record Guide, 2015 review of “Le Menu des Mélodies,” Centaur Records

"Lancaster has a sturdy voice and sings with immaculate diction…."
- American Record Guide, 2018 review of “Sacred Song,” Albany Records

"Jacques, most importantly, helps carry the show. Baritone Stephen Lancaster...conveys the character's mix of profundity and buffoonery while singing with authority and superb diction."
- South Bend Tribune, 2016 review of “As You Like It,” Opera Notre Dame

"Lancaster's voice was wonderful. His line...burst in during a quiet moment in the fourth movement, and he held his own against the orchestra's full complement of strings and wind instruments."
 - South Bend Tribune, 2015 review of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, South Bend Symphony