Stephen Stubbs, a lutenist and music director, was born in 1951. Born in Seattle, he studied harpsichord and composition at the University of Washington, where he also began playing the lute. He then moved to England and Holland to study further, and gave his debut concert at London’s Wigmore Hall in 1976. From 1981 to 2013 he taught at the University of the Arts Bremen in Germany. He moved back to Seattle in 2006. In 2013 he became an artist in residence at the University of Washington in Seattle.

He has performed extensively with his ensembles Tragicomedia and Teatro Lirico and has conducted baroque operas worldwide, and has recorded numerous albums with ensembles including the Hilliard Ensemble, and with Andrew Lawrence-King. He is artistic co-director, with Paul O’Dette, of the Boston Early Music Festival. On February 8, 2015, he won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, for a recording of Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers and La Couronne de fleurs.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Stubbs
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2345107