Deemed an “impressive tenor” (The New York Times) who sings with “sweet vibrancy” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) Gene Stenger is a Bach specialist who is also heralded for his performances of oratorios by Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Mozart. He regularly performs with leading ensembles and interpreters of early music while continuing to expand his repertoire to include music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

In the 2026-27 season, Stenger returns to Winter Opera St. Louis as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and to Staunton Music Festival as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. He will also join InSeries Opera as Septimus in Handel’s Theodora. He makes returns to the Helena Symphony, Toledo Symphony, and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah.

In the last two seasons, Stenger joined Winter Opera St. Louis for the first time as Alexis in The Sorcerer. He was the tenor soloist with the Portland Symphony, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Bach Ensemble, Washington Bach Consort, and the Charlottesville Symphony in Bach’s B Minor Mass, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and Mozart’s Requiem.

Stenger’s recent engagements as soloist have included performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Bach’s Magnificat with the Providence Singers, Mozart's Coronation Mass with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity New York, Mozart’s Requiem with the Bach Society of St. Louis, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with TENET Vocal Artists, Handel’s Judas Maccabeus with the Harvard Baroque Orchestra and the world premiere of Arnold Rosner's The Chronicle of Nine with Odyssey Opera. His virtual projects have included a production of Messiah produced by Classical Arizona PBS with the GRAMMY® nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra, a reimagined staged production of Bach’s St. John Passion with The Thirteen Chamber Choir, and OperaTune Productions’ “Hope Resurrected: A 3-part Classical Easter Concert Series Experience” broadcast live on WMNR Radio in Connecticut.

Stenger was the tenor soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under the baton of Helmuth Rilling with the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, which included an international tour in Germany and South America, and was featured in a 2013 documentary about Rilling entitled Ein Leben mit Bach (A Life with Bach). Stenger has also been heard with the Bach Akademie Charlotte, Oregon Bach Festival, Bach Collegium at St. Peter's New York, American Classical Orchestra, Voices of Ascension, the Northeast Pennsylvania Bach Festival, Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Society and the Clarion Music Society.

In 2024, Stenger joined Resonance Works to portray the role of Rodrigo in of Rossini’s La donna del lago, for which he was lauded by The Pittsburgh Tattler as “Particularly stunning…with a vibrant and powerful voice and a charismatic stage presence.” He has previously performed the roles of Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Damon in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Tonio in La fille du Régiment, King Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, El Remendado in Carmen, Paolino in Il matrimonio segreto, Peter Quint in Turn of the Screw, the roles of Pirelli and The Beadle in Sweeney Todd, Marco Palmieri in The Gondoliers, Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte, and the title roles of Pygmalion and Albert Herring.

Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Gene holds degrees from Yale University’s School of Music, and Institute of Sacred Music, Colorado State University, and Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. Recent discography credits include tenor soloist in Schmelzer’s Le Memorie Dolorose with TENET Vocal Artists and ACRONYM, and tenor soloist on Yale Schola Cantorum’s album Fauré Requiem and other sacred music led by David Hill and released on Hyperion Records. In 2017, Gene was a Virginia Best Adams Vocal Fellow with the Carmel Bach Festival, and was a prize winner in the annual Handel Aria Competition. He currently resides in New Haven, CT, where he serves as instructor of voice at Yale University.

Gene Stenger is under the management of Athlone Artists.