Steven Devine

Musical Director, Summer Opera

Since 2007 Steven has been the harpsichordist with London Baroque in
addition to his position as Co-Principal keyboard player with the Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment. He is also the principal keyboard player for
The Gonzaga Band, Apollo and Pan, The Classical Opera Company, I Fagiolini
and performs regularly with many other groups around Europe. He has recorded
over thirty discs with other artists and ensembles and made three solo
recordings. His next major recording, Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Chandos
Records, will be released in June this year.

Steven made his London conducting debut in 2002 at the Royal Albert Hall and
is now a regular performer there – including making his Proms directing
debut in August 2007 with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.. He has
conducted the Mozart Festival Orchestra in every major concert hall in the
UK and also across Switzerland. In opera, Steven has worked at the Comische
Oper in Berlin and alongside Paul Mcreesh throughout France. With Opera
Restor’d, he has conducted at Wigmore Hall in London, at the Warwick, Lake
District, Stour Norwich and English Haydn Festivals. Steven is a Music
Director for New Chamber Opera in Oxford and with them has conducted
performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Mozart’s La Finta Semplice,
Stradella’s Il Trespolo Tutore, Rossini’s Il Comte Ory, Handel’s Xerxes,
Arne’s Artaxerxes, Galuppi’s Il Mondo Reverso. He has just directed the
first performance of the newly-acquired score of Cavalli’s Erismena this
Summer. For the Dartington Festival Opera he has conducted Handel’s Orlando
and will return later this year with Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

Passionate about the role of music in education, Steven is a regular member
of the OAE education team, Professor of Fortepiano at Trinity College of
Music and a visiting teacher, adjudicator and examiner for many other
institutions.

One of Steven’s proudest (and longest) associations is with the Finchcocks
Musical Museum in Kent where holds the post of Director of Education.