Stephen Stubbs

Stephen Stubbs, who won the GRAMMY Award as conductor for Best Opera Recording in 2015, maintains a busy calendar as a guest conductor, specializing in baroque opera and oratorio. Stephen is the artistic co-director of the bi-annual Boston Early Music Festival. BEMF recordings were nominated for six Grammy awards so far. The 2015 Grammy win was for Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphee.  BEMF recordings won two Echo Klassik awards in Germany, and the Diapason d’Or de l’Année in France and were presented with the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. In 2008 Stubbs established Pacific MusicWorks in Seattle with a revival of South African artist William Kentridge's acclaimed multimedia staging of Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulisses. With Pacific MusicWorks, he went on to conduct staged productions of Handel’s Semele, Mozart’s Magic Flute and Gluck’s Orphée. He has conducted performances of Messiah for Houston Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Seattle Symphony and Symphony Nova Scotia. As a guest conductor of opera, Stephen has made multiple appearances with Opera Omaha including Handel’s Agrippina, Semele, Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista. Other recent opera engagements include Monteverdi’s Tancredi et Clorinda with Seattle Opera, and Stefano Landi’s La Morte d’Orfeo for Los Angeles Opera. Much in demand for work with student and emerging performers, he has worked with conservatories including the Juilliard School and UCLA Opera. He has conducted Mozart’s Il re pastore at the Merola Opera Institute; Handel’s Rodelinda with the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute and Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.