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Stephen Stubbs, Artistic Director

After a thirty year career in Europe , Stephen Stubbs returned to his native Seattle in 2006 to establish his new production company, Pacific MusicWorks. The company's inaugural production of Monteverdi’s Return of Ulysses stage-directed by South African artist William Kentridge was universally lauded by critics and public alike. Subsequent productions have included a successful collaboration with Seattle Chamber Players/On the Boards for a staging that included Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi as well as two performances of the Monteverdi Vespers with Concerto Palatino that were described by the Seattle Times as “utterly thrilling” and “of a quality you are unlikely to encounter anywhere else in the world”. The 2011- 2012 season will mark both the company's first full season of events and it's first subscription series.

Since 1997 Stephen has co-directed the bi-annual Boston Early Music Festival opera and is the permanent artistic co-director. BEMF’s recordings of Conradi’s Ariadne, Lully’s Thesee, and Psyché were nominated for Grammy awards in 2005, 2007, and 2009.

Besides his ongoing commitments to Pacific Musicworks and the Boston Early Music Festival, other engagements have recently taken Stephen to Bilbao’s opera house in Spain to conduct Handels’ Guilio Cesare and Gluck’s Orfeo as well as Handel’s Guilio Cesare in Murcia, Spain. In 2007 he returned to the Netherlands Opera, Amsterdam, where he directed Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. 2011 saw his debut conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra performing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

The 2010-2011 season will see Stephen direct a new production of Steffani’s Niobe for the Boston Early Music Festival, Handel’s Agrippina for the UCLA Opera department Esther with Pacific MusicWorks as well as co-direct a revival of Acis and Galatea for BEMF with Paul ODette.

To cultivate the singers and players of the next generation, Stephen Stubbs and Pacific Musicworks now offer a 10 day workshop given very year in August at Cornish College of the Arts. It offers 30 advanced students the opportunity to work on musical and dramatic aspects of 17th century vocal repertoire with a faculty of world-renowned specialists.

Mr Stubbs is represented by Schwalbe and Partners.

Matthew White, Executive Director

Well known to both North American and European early music audiences, Matthew has spent the last fifteen years performing as a counter-tenor soloist with orchestras and opera companies in many of the world's most prestigious venues. Over the last 5 years he has also been active as the managing director of Montreal's  ensemble Les Voix Baroques. Under Matthew's leadership Les Voix Baroques produced 5 full seasons as ensemble in residence at Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, toured nationally and internationally and released 6 universally lauded recordings for Atma Classique. Matthew and his family are looking forward to making Seattle their home and helping Stephen and Pacific Musicworks realize their many exciting projects.

Maxine Eilander, Director of Education and Outreach

Maxine Eilander has appeared as a baroque harpist with many leading ensembles and festivals throughout Europe, Canada and the USA. She has recorded Handel's Harp, released on ATMA in 2009, with all of Handel's obligato music written for the harp, including his famous harp concerto, which she has also recorded with Tafelmusik (A Baroque Feast, Analekta, 2002). The 2008 release of William Lawes' Harp Consorts on ATMA has already garnered much favorable press, including five stars from Goldberg Magazine.

Since 2005 Maxine has managed the Accademia d’Amore baroque opera workshops in Seattle. She is the Director of Education for Pacific MusicWorks and is on the early music faculty at Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle.

Board of Directors

Bruce Johnson (President) – Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine,

Bill McJohn (Treasurer) Software Engineer, Microsoft (retired)

Mary Ann Hagan - Seattle Symphony Education Director (retired);former Executive Director, Washington Alliance for Arts Education;

James Savage – Director of Music, St. James Cathedral

Davis Fox - DB Fox Consulting, Inc. – President and Principal Consultant.

Joan Conlon – Professor and Director of Graduate Choral Research, Emerita, University of Colorado College of Music,

Midge Bowman –Executive Director of the Frye Museum (retired)

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