RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
PRESS
2025 ComposersNOW interview with Whitney George
ComposersNOW interview with the Composer Curator Initiative hosted by Whitney George, NYC. Featured composers: Anne LeBaron, Jasmine Barnes, and Stephanie Leotsakos (Timestamp 54:33)
Stephanie was named the 2024 winner of the National Opera Association’s Dominick Argento Fellowship for Opera Composition at the NOA’s 69th Annual National Conference on January 6, 2024!
She is currently pursuing her PhD in composition at Rutgers University.
CONDUCTING
Stephanie conducted City Lyric Opera’s opera “Black Water” by Jeremy Beck in NYC at The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in May 2025.
Stephanie conducted the 'Pie Jesu' from Gabriel Faure's Requiem at the Princeton University Chapel for the 150th Anniversary of the Princeton University Glee Club on November 17, 2024.
Stephanie conducted the world premiere of the first modern Chazzanut opera titled Yehudit by cantor-composer, Iris Karlin, on May 16th, 2024 at Temple Emanu-El in NYC.
Stephanie Leotsakos, gave her NYC opera conducting debut, conducting a fully-staged production of Mozart's Don Giovanni with Amore Opera on February 3rd, 2024 at The Center at West Park in NYC.
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COMPOSING
Stephanie’s recent chamber piece “When we call, God whispers” for violin, cello, and piano premiered at Rutgers University in December 2025.
Stephanie’s recent choral work “Children Are The Spirit of the World” commissioned by Sussex County Music Educator's Association County Choir for their 50th Anniversary concert premiered in November 2025.
Stephanie’s choral work “We call the moon” dedicated to Stephanie’s late aunt Margo premiered with the Wagner College Treble Choir in April 2023.
Stephanie’s opera ‘Young Goodman Brown’was featured for a second year at the Philly Fringe Festival as part of The Perspective Collective’s “Dark Places” program in October 2023. The opera also premiered internationally at the 2023 Fringe TheatreFest in June with The Perspective Collective in Barnstaple, U.K. and was reviewed as “not to be missed by all music lovers”!
PERFORMING
Stephanie was honored to be one of four semi-finalists in the 2023 National Federation of Music Clubs Vocal Competition. With a diverse 70-minute program prepared, she competed in the live-competition in Norfolk, VA in June 2023.
DID YOU KNOW?
In addition to being a composer, performer, and conductor, Stephanie is an inventor and entrepreneur and the founder of Gnotes by Stephanie, LLC, where she is developing new tools for learning music theory through her original Gnotes Method.
Stephanie presented The Gnotes™ Method at the 2024 NJ Music Educators Association Conference in Atlantic City on Febrary 24, 2024.
Stephanie’s original Tonnetz Explorer is now a FREE and INTERACTIVE web-based app that you can play with anytime! Follow this LINK to give it a try!
Stephanie is currently developing her fourth prototype of the PlayUrStaff, a digital touch-and-play instrument and MIDI-controller for all music learners. Limited commercial release of the PlayUrStaff is anticipated in 2027-2028. Check out the video of prototype #2 below!
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In the summer of 2023, Stephanie completed the Toy Creators Academy and was awarded the “Most Innovative Student” award in Azhelle Wade’s TCA 6.0 course.
Visit
www.GnotesbyStephanie.com
to learn more and stay up to date on GnotesbyStephanie, LLC. and Stephanie’s entrepreneurial developments!
