Evan Marie Dozier-Stefanuk is a young and successful soprano vocalist and composer. She has studied music since the age of 14, when she began at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music in their pre-college program and later obtained her bachelor of music degree from Vanderbilt, graduating summa cum laude in 2000. In May of 2006, Evan graduated with her master of music degree in vocal performance and opera from Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Evan’s most recent accomplishments include: First-Place prize winner of the Pro-Mozart Competition, which sent her to study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. And in the summer of 2006, Evan was an artist with the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. She also recently performed the role of “Lady Billows” in the opera Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten as well as the title role of “Suor Angelica” in Puccini’s Suor Angelica.

Evan has studied in private lessons and in master classes with world-reknown teachers including: Thomas Hampson, Gabriella Lechner, Karen Peeler, John Kolody, Richard Miller, Edda Moser, Edith Mathis, Galina Pisarenko, Sharon Stephenson, Dr. Jonathan Miller, George Shirley, Dr. Jonathan Retzlaff, Carol Webber, Ward Holmquist, Carol Neblett, Maestro Fred Scott and Walter Huff of the Atlanta Opera, Dr. Peter Marshall of the Atlanta Symphony, and others. Aside from her performing career, Evan enjoys an exceptionally successful vocal studio in Atlanta, Georgia. Many of her students have been accepted as vocal majors at leading universities and colleges including The Guild Hall School in London, North Carolina School of the Arts, Vanderbilt University, Belmont University, Shorter College, and many others.

In early 2007, Evan began The New Opera, an company devoted to bringing the art form of opera to a more popular and prominent station in present day society. The New Opera's productions cover various subjects from children's stories to Mozart and Dickinson and are written in an accessible musical style that is enjoyable for opera lovers or a listeners who may be experiencing their very first opera .

Many of The New Opera's projects are geared toward young audiences, including shows written for children. The New Opera prides themselves in taking opera directly to schools and other establishments in the hopes of helping encourage a love and appreciation for opera. Some of their first opera's included An American Story: George Gershwin, Wolfy, The Kitty Who Lost Her Meow and The True Story of Wolf and Red Riding Hood. Presently, Evan and Misha are working on their upcoming opera, Emily, which incorporates poetry by Emily Dickinson.

In her work with The New Opera, Evan has sung many roles, but even more importantly, she has served as the librettist for all of the operas, writing the stories and scripts for each work. For more information, please visit www.TheNewOpera.com.