Stephanie Bloch is a 18-year-old classically-trained percussionist. She comes from a Latino family who moved from Venezuela to Miami, Florida, in search of better opportunities. Music runs in her family’s bloodline and it’s always been by her side. She started studying general music at the age of four and moved to piano when she turned six.

Stephanie currently studies at Oberlin Conservatory and studies privately with Ross Karre. She is a graduate of Interlochen Center for the Arts High School and studied under Keith Aleo. She has performed with many ensembles, including the Greater Miami Youth Symphony, New World School of the Arts Symphony and Wind Ensemble, NYU’s Sandbox Percussion Seminar Ensemble, Juilliard's Summer Percussion Seminar, and Interlochen’s orchestra, wind symphony, and percussion ensemble. Always performing solo works for solo and ensemble festivals, with superior scores every time, for juries, recitals and concerts. Stephanie has won 2 concerto competitions and played concerto’s arranged & rehearsed by herself.

Stephanie is also fond of studying music theory and composition. She’s taken advanced college courses specializing in music theory and composition, composition/theory classes through Interlochen Arts Camp/Academy, and has attended Oberlin’s Sonic Arts Workshop as well. Her goal is to keep studying music performance and composition at Oberlin Conservatory and continue to share her and other's art in the form of music.