Virginia Sublett and Stephen Sturk, the artistic co-directors of Cappella Gloriana, created San Diego's finest a cappella vocal ensemble together in 1996, and they continue to direct it as it delights audiences around the world.

Virginia Sublett Face Shot Stephen Sturk with Dog

Virgina Sublet

Virginia Sublett has been a principal artist with opera companies such as New York City Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and L'Opéra de Nice (France), in a repertoire that encompasses the Queen of the Night in Magic Flute, Nannetta in Falstaff, Fire, Princess and Nightingale in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, and Tytania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She is a frequent soloist with orchestras, oratorio societies, and chamber ensembles throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Diego, Illinois and Pacific Symphonies, and Mainly Mozart, and is particularly known for performances of Baroque repertoire and 20th and 21st century music. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, in 1997 Miss Sublett became the first person to be granted a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of California, San Diego. She joined the faculty of North Dakota State University as an associate professor of music (voice) in 2004.

Stephen Sturk

Stephen Sturk is Executive Director of the Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music (PACEM) and composer-in-residence at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego. Sturk is a nationally recognized composer of church music with more than 30 works in print. He served on the faculty of the University of San Diego (director of the Choral Scholars Program), and also has been music director at several San Diego-area churches. In New York City he held conducting positions with The New York Motet Choir, the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and The Juilliard Singers. He has also performed and recorded with the Waverly Consort, New York Philharmonic, Musica Sacra, New York's Ensemble for Early Music, and Steve Reich and Musicians. In addition to three Cappella Gloriana CDs, Sturk appears as conductor or singer on more than 50 recordings, most notably the soundtrack of the Disney animated feature “Beauty and the Beast.”