Stephen Wall began in Seattle as an apprentice artist in the Seattle Opera Cecilia Schultz program in 1982. Since then he has appeared in leading and supporting roles with Seattle Opera, Portland Opera, Utah Festival Opera, and Tacoma Opera.

He is an oratorio soloist with organizations throughout the Northwest such as the Seattle Chamber Singers, Seattle Choral Company, Seattle Bach Choir, Choir of the Sound, the Symphonies of Seattle, Spokane, Everett, Bellevue, Yakima, Pendelton Or., Great Falls Mo., Vancouver B.C. and Sapporo Japan.

In the spring of 2004 he appeared in Seattle Operas productions of Ariadne auf Naxos and Girl of the Golden West. In April of 2005 he sang at Benaroya Hall as the tenor soloist in Bach's St. John Passion with Orchestra Seattle under the direction of George Shangrow.