Stephen Stubbs

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Stephen Stubbs, 2001 in Leiden

Stephen Stubbs (* 1951 in Seattle ) is a lutenist and conductor dedicated to historical performance practice .

Life

He studied harpsichord and composition at the University of Washington , where he also began playing the lute and other baroque plucked instruments . After graduating, he specialized in England and the Netherlands and made his debut at London's Wigmore Hall in 1976. From 1980 to 2006, Stubbs lived in northern Germany. He has been teaching at the Bremen Academy of Early Music since 1981 , which was merged into the Bremen University of the Arts in 1994 , where he was a professor.

He is known as a continuo player through numerous recordings and a lively concert activity with ensembles such as Fiori musicali , Musicalische Compagney , Tragicomedia and Teatro Lirico , of which he is the founder . Other partners were the Hilliard Ensemble and Andrew Lawrence-King , Les Arts Florissants and Philippe Herreweghe . The success of his performance of Stefano Landi's opera La morte d'Orfeo in 1987 at the Early Music Festival in Bruges led him to conduct early Baroque operas around the world. In 1994 he was awarded the Edison Award .

In 2006 he moved back to Seattle. He founded the Seattle Academy of Baroque Opera for young professional singers and is an adjunct professor at the Cornish College of the Arts . Together with Paul O'Dette , he is artistic director of the Boston Early Music Festival and has recorded several baroque operas with it in cooperation with Radio Bremen and the sound engineer Renate Wolter-Seevers . Several of these works were nominated for a Grammy Award for the best opera recording and in 2015 they won the Grammy for the production of the opera La descente d'Orphée aux enfers by Marc-Antoine Charpentier with the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble & Vocal Ensemble.

Discography (selection)

  • 17th century sonatas and suites . 1981, Recreation TGS 301. LP (with Fiori musicali; works by Schwartzkopff, Erlebach and Krieger)
  • Italian solo music around 1630. Toccate - canzone - sonata . 1982, Recreation TGS 302. LP (with Fiori musicali; works by Castello, Fontana, Merulo, Piccinini, Frescobaldi)
  • Sonata concertati . 1982. Teldec, 8.44010 ZS. CD (with the Musical Compagney )
  • Fiori concertati . 1983. Teldec, 8.44011 ZS. CD (with the Musical Compagney)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel: Israel in Egypt . 1984. LP (with Mieke van der Sluis, Hedwig van der Meer, John York Skinner, Theo Altmeyer , Peter Kooy , Harry van der Kamp; Groningse Bachvereniging, Fiori musicali)
  • Heinrich Schütz: Psalms, Concerto, Motets . 1985. Ambitus, amb 97843. CD (with the Musicalische Compagney)
  • Vincent Lübeck: Complete cantatas . 1986. Motet, CD 50181 ( David Cordier , Graham Pushee, Harry Geraerts , Harry van der Kamp ; New College Choir Oxford, Fiori musicali)
  • Heinrich Schütz: Christmas History ; My soul exalts the Lord; The seven words . 1986. Dabringhaus and Grimm, MD + GL 3229. CD (with the Musicalische Compagney)
  • Heinrich Schütz: Love and Lament . 1986. Dabringhaus and Grimm, MD + GL 3230. CD (with the Musicalische Compagney)
  • Stefano Landi: La morte d'Orfeo . 1987. Accent, ACC 8746/47 D. CD (with tragicomedia)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Solo Cantatas . 1988. Dabringhaus and Grimm, MD + GL 3297. CD (BWB 56 and 82 with Harry van der Kamp and Fiori musicali)
  • A Musical Dreame . 1988. hyperion, CDA66335. CD (with David Cordier, Michael Chance and Tragicomedia)
  • My mind to me a kingdom is . 1989. hyperion, CDA66307. CD (with David Cordier and Tragicomedia)
  • Orpheus I am . 1991. EMI Classics, CDC 7543112. CD (with Barbara Borden, David Cordier, John Potter, Harry van der Kamp and Tragicomedia)
  • Sprezzatura . 1991. EMI Classics, CDC 7543122nd CD (with Tragicomedia)
  • Reinhard Keizer: Masaniello furioso . Dramma musicale . 1993. cpo 999110-2. CD (with David Cordier, Wilfried Jochens, Harry van der Kamp, Hein Meens, Barbara Schlick , Dorothea Röschmann , Michael Schopper , Jelle Dreyer, Winfried Mikus; Fiori musicali)
  • David Kellner: XVI Exquisite Lute Pieces . 1993. cpo 999 097-2. CD.
  • Luigi Rossi: Le canterine novels . 1993. Teldec, 4509-90799-2. CD (with tragicomedia)
  • Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigali concertati . 1993. Teldec, 4509-91971-2. CD (with tragicomedia)
  • Claudio Monteverdi: Il ballo della ingrate; Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda . 1993. Teldec, 4509-90798-2. CD (with tragicomedia)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (1725) - A Selection . 1994. Teldec, 4509-91183-2. CD (with tragicomedia)
  • Vanitas vanitatum. Rome 1650 . 1995. Teldec, 4509-98410-2. CD (with tragicomedia)
  • JS Bach: Lute Works BWV 995 - 998 - 1001 . 2002. ATMA Classique 22238. CD.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Timothy Dickey (allmusic.com): Biography Stephen Stubbs Biography , viewed December 3, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b Berit Böhme: sound engineer Renate Wolter-Seevers again nominated for a Grammy Radio Bremen press office, January 21, 2020; accessed on February 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ Allan Kozinn : The Rare Crossover With Many Rewards . In: The New York Times , June 18, 2000, viewed December 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ bach-cantatas.com: Stephen Stubbs (Lute, Conductor, Arranger) , accessed December 3, 2011.
  5. ↑ Allan Kozinn: MUSIC: Classical Recordings; Bringing Early Music Into the 19th Century In: The New York Times , April 30, 2006, accessed December 3, 2011.
  6. ^ A Grammy goes to Bremen Weser-Kurier, February 9, 2015; accessed on February 24, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Stubbs, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lutenist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle