Stephanie Benavente

Adjudicator

Stephanie was born in Newport and studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. Stephanie has worked in musical theatre, radio and television, recording studios and concerts as a soloist in many classical performances, including Handel’s Messiah, Haydn The Creation, Nelson Mass and St Theresa Mass, Mozart Requiem, Rutter Requiem, Poulenc Gloria, Karl Jenkins’ Adiemus (premier at the Royal Albert Hall) and also contemporary concert performances throughout Britain, Europe and America. She was a featured performer at the opening night of the Wales Millennium Centre. She has been guest soloist on BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night and as a soloist on live TV and radio concert broadcasts in Denmark. She has played roles in the musicals Bitter Sweet, Cabaret and Half a Sixpence for BBC Radio 2 and was featured vocalist for The Happy Prince (Channel 4)

Her West End musical theatre work includes Les Miserables at the Palace Theatre, London covering Fantine and Eponine which she played many times, and Grease at the Dominion Theatre.

Stephanie has recorded solo tracks on the albums World In Motion, The Festival, Sutter (a new musical) and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Songbook. As a session singer, she has worked on commercials, live TV and theatre work and numerous sessions for albums, TV and films, including Evita, Gladiator, Hannibal, Prince of Egypt, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Time Machine. She is a highly respected singing teacher and vocal coach, and now runs a successful theatrical agency, Vocal Works International.

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