Working with living composers is a vital part of Stephanie's music-making.  Along with giving numerous world and Canadian premieres, she has also had the opportunity to work with established international composers such as George Crumb, Alejandro Viñao, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, and Jesper Nordin. 

 As a much sought-after collaborative pianist, Stephanie has accompanied at the l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Standard Life Competition (Winds, 2008), the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition for Contemporary Music (Strings 2009), and the 2010 Susan Slaughter International Solo Brass Competition.  She has also worked as a repetiteur for Tapestry New Opera in the workshop and premiere of a new work by composer Juliette Palmer and librettist Julie Salverson –Shelter –An Atomic Opera. 

Stephanie holds her Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from the University of Toronto.  She was also Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and earned her Bachelor of Music from the University of Victoria.  Her main teachers were Robin Wood and Marietta Orlov, and she worked extensively in master classes with Menahem Pressler and Leon Fleisher. In 2009, Stephanie received an Ontario Arts Council Career Development Grant allowing her to pursue studies with Ian Pace in London, England.