JACK STEPHENS Sydney-born bass, Jack Stephens has worked extensively in Australia and overseas as a soloist and ensemble singer. Jack is the Director of Music at St Paul's College (within the University of Sydney) and works as the Principal Lay Clerk at St Andrew's Cathedral Choir. Jack sings regularly with St Mary's Cathedral Choir and Cantallation, and is on the Committee of the Royal School of Church Music NSW, in July 2019 organising their SydneyinSpires conference. He is currently studying a Doctorate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, supervised by Dr Erin Helyard, looking at Regietheater and its application to the staging of Bach's Passions and Cantatas. Jack is a core member of the Canberra-based consort Luminescence Chamber Singers and has performed at the Canberra International Music Festival and the Four Winds Festival in Bermagui. In 2020 Jack was a Reserve Finalist for the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria Competition, and in 2021 won the Audience Prize at the Sydney Cantorion Singing Competition. Jack is the Artistic Director and Producer of Opera in the Quad, which recently presented Purcell's 'King Arthur', narrated by Peter Cousens. He has been producer and musical director of two further Purcell operas at St Paul's College, culminating in 'The Faery Queen' in 2023.