Music has a tendency to permeate everything in my life, but when I am not performing, teaching, composing, arranging, or practicing, I enjoy living into my viking domesticity and can frequently be found cooking, sewing, spinning yarn, SCUBA diving, or studying and practicing herbalism. Striving for holistic and consummate musicianship happily also impacts me as an actor and as a teacher. Because of this, I have always been happiest when I can look at a gig holistically, letting my musical experiences inform each other across genre lines.
But I love singing funk any day of the week! I was raised on a diverse musical diet, frequently consuming Beethoven, Rush, Miles Davis, Janis Joplin, Queen, Schostakovitch, and Leonard Cohen in the same day. As a bassist, I have performed everything from orchestral music to circus/cabaret to dive bar rock and as a vocalist, I have trained in the operatic, jazz, and musical theatre genres. He lives in Seattle with his wife Shannon, two small kiddos, dog Kaylee, and cat Rigby.Īs a performer, I enjoy singing and playing a variety of styles. Stephen is also half of the indie music duo PepperJill & Jack, where he acts as primary songwriter and performs on guitar, ukulele, piano, trombone, vocals, and percussion. He has played on five continents and appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman (twice), Good Morning America, and the BBC. As a performing member and musical director of The Flying Karamazov Brothers, the critically acclaimed vaudeville troupe, Stephen has performed in major commercial theaters in London, Madrid, Chicago, and New York. He also serves as Minister of Music and the Arts at First Congregational Church, Bellevue, UCC, where he regularly composes new works for choir and has conducted works such as Fauré’s Requiem (2017), Street Requiem (2019), and Considering Matthew Shepard (2023). Stephen holds the position of Assistant Professor of Music at DigiPen Institute of Technology, where he conducts choirs and teaches courses in music history, conducting, low brass, and orchestration. Stephen O’Bent is a trombonist, conductor, composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist with extensive experience in a variety of styles and ensembles, including choirs, orchestras, musical theater pits, and jazz/rock/samba bands.
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