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Land’s End

Music from the Western Edge of Europe

Two leading early music performers present an exhilirating evening of music from Spain, Ireland and Scotland - the western edge of Europe. The programme includes works by Santiago de Murcia, Francisco Guerrau, Nicola Mateis, Turlough O'Carolan, and more.

Maxine Eilander baroque harp
Stephen Stubbs lute and guitar

Concert Details

Doors open at 6:30 pm - Come for a drink, or a meal! All ages welcome. Music starts around 8:00 pm.

There is no food or beverage service during the performances; please order meals by 7:40 pm.
The Cellar is licensed as a restaurant and is therefore open to all ages.
A minimum $10 food/beverage order is in effect.

Ticket prices: $25 per concert; Series Tickets for all five concerts $125 $100.

Rush Seats for Students with valid ID on sale for $10, at the door only, from 6:30 pm on the evening of the concert.

These concerts are included in our “Bring a Youth for Free” programme.

Programme

The programme details will be posted here in the future.

– programme subject to changes

Programme Notes

Programme notes will be posted here in the future.

The Artists

Maxine Eilander baroque harp

Maxine Eilander has appeared as a soloist with leading ensembles throughout the world including Teatro Lirico, Tafelmusik, Tragicomedia, The Toronto Consort, Les Voix Humaines, and the Seattle Baroque Orchestra. Eilander plays a range of specialized early harps: the Italian triple strung harp, the Spanish cross-strung harp, the German ‘Davidsharfe’, the Welsh triple harp for which Handel wrote his harp concerto, and the classical single action pedal harp. Eilander’s most recent recording Handel’s Harp (ATMA, 2009), features Handel’s complete obligato music for harp, and includes his famous harp concerto. She has also recorded the same work with Tafelmusik (A Baroque Feast, Analekta, 2002). Other notable recordings include William Lawes’ Harp Consorts (ATMA, 2008), a recording of Italian music for harp and baroque guitar with duo partner Stephen Stubbs entitled Sonata al Pizzico (ATMA 2004), Teatro Lirico (ECM, 2006), Ay que si, Spanish 17th century music with Les Voix Humaines (ATMA, 2002), Scarlatti’s oratorio Hagar and Ishmael, with Seattle Baroque (Centaur, 2003), Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, with Tragicomedia (ATMA, 2002), and the Grammy-nominated Conradi’s Ariadne for the Boston Early Music Festival (CPO, 2005).

Stephen Stubbs lute & guitar

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 2012-2013 season will mark both the company's second full season of events.

Since 1997 Stephen has co-directed the bi-annual Boston Early Music Festival opera where he series as the permanent artistic co-director. BEMF’s recordings of Conradi’s Ariadne, Lully’s Thesée, 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 Giulio 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 saw 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, and a revival of Acis and Galatea for BEMF with Paul O’Dette.