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      <image:title>Artistic Director - Brent Stewart – Artistic Director 2026</image:title>
      <image:caption>Opus Orchestra is delighted to welcome Brent Stewart as Artistic Director for 2026. Brent is a highly respected New Zealand conductor, known for performances that are both thoughtful and deeply engaging. He brings a strong sense of curiosity to his work, alongside a deep respect for the classical tradition and a genuine commitment to new music and fresh perspectives. His programming and rehearsal approach have a clarity that helps music feel immediate, relevant, and connected to audiences. Brent is particularly passionate about chamber orchestras as uniquely expressive musical ensembles capable of intimacy, clarity, and a strong collective voice a perspective that aligns closely with Opus Orchestra’s artistic identity and its connection to communities across the Waikato and Bay of Plenty. Brent has worked with many of Aotearoa’s leading arts organisations, including the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, Orchestra Wellington, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, Royal New Zealand Ballet, and New Zealand Opera. He is currently Music Director of Orpheus Choir Wellington, Principal Timpanist with Orchestra Wellington, Assistant Conductor and Pianist for the New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir, and New Zealand Opera’s Friedlander Foundation Associate Artist. He is widely recognised for his collaborative approach, his support of New Zealand composers, and his commitment to education and mentoring emerging musicians. Opus Orchestra looks forward to working with Brent throughout 2026 and to sharing this next chapter of the orchestra’s artistic journey with audiences and supporters.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Artistic Director - Peter Walls – Music Director 2004-2025</image:title>
      <image:caption>Peter Walls was the Music Director and Principal Conductor of Opus Orchestra from 2004-2025. Peter has had a lifelong engagement with Baroque repertoire both as a performer and scholar. He played Baroque violin in the Academy of Ancient Music and other ensembles in the U.K. in the 1970s and was Music Director of The Baroque Players for many years and of The Tudor Consort from 1993 until 1999. His CD with that choir of motets by Peter Philips was listed by Neue Musikzeitung as one of the top early music recordings of 2002 and received a CHOC award from Le Monde de la Musique (the highest award from one of the leading French magazines for Classical music). Classics Today wrote “Conductor Peter Walls understands the overall period style and he obviously cares a lot about ensemble balance and uniformity of tone and colour.” He has published extensively on 17th and 18th-century performance practice. His book Music in the English Courtly Masque received an award from the British Academy while another book History, Imagination and the Performance of Music resulted from Lectures that he gave at Magdalen College Oxford in 2000. In 2014 he was invited to give classes on Italian Baroque performance in the historical performance programme at the Juilliard School. Among the operas he has conducted are Handel’s Semele (for NZ Opera), Imeneo, John Eccles’s Semele (the first setting of the libretto adapted for Handel), Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro, Magic Flute, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Paride ed Elena, Verdi’s Nabucco and La Traviata, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermour and Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi (for Southern Opera in 2009 and Opera Whanganui in 1994). He has conducted many premieres of New Zealand works, including Ross Harris’s Tanz der Schwāne (1993) and Jack Body’s Alley (for the 1998 International Festivals of the Arts). Peter has directed “Close Encounters” programmes with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and been Music Director of Opus Orchestra since 2004. Peter was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Music in New Zealand in 2012. He was also awarded the Silver Medal for Merit Gloria Artis by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2011) and the Lilburn Trust Citation for Outstanding Services to New Zealand Music in 1998. He is Emeritus Professor of Music at Victoria University of Wellington.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Patron - James Judd - Patron</image:title>
      <image:caption>James Judd was Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra from 1999 to 2007, when Opus Music Director Dr Peter Walls was on the Board and then Chief Executive at the time. They became good friends, which they have been ever since. It was on the basis of this friendship that Peter asked James if he would become the patron of Opus Orchestra. There was also an open invitation for him to conduct a series of concerts with Opus but the only dates that ever worked were for a Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival Concert (with Deborah Wai-Kapohe as soloist) in around 2009. James and his family (who have permanent residency status) are relocating to Aotearoa/New Zealand from Florida very soon – so opportunities for him to conduct Opus in the future will increase. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Waikato shortly around the same time that he became our Patron. British-born James Judd came to international attention as Lorin Maazel’s Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. Four years later Claudio Abbado appointed him Associate Music Director of the European Community Youth Orchestra. Since then, he has led the Berlin Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestras; he has conducted in the great concert halls of Europe, including Salzburg’s Mozarteum and Vienna’s Musikverein; and made guest appearances with the Vienna Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Prague Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Symphony, the Brussels Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Japan’s NHK Orchestra and the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. He has conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He was co-founder of and toured extensively with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In North America, he is a frequent guest conductor with many major orchestras.  James Judd’s many directorships include 16 years with the Florida Philharmonic, principal guest conductorships with the Asian Youth Orchestra, France’s Orchestre National de Lille, the Israel Symphony, New York’s Little Orchestra Society, the Slovak Philharmonic and he is currently Music Director of Korea’s Daejeon Philharmonic. Inspired by Venezuela’s El Sistema, he founded the Miami Music Project in Florida, providing education and performance opportunities for hundreds of children, and has led the orchestras of the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute, Manhattan School of Music, London’s Guildhall School and Trinity College, Aspen Music Festival and the national youth orchestras of Australia and New Zealand.  His extensive discography of works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, Copland, Gershwin and Mahler appears on the Naxos, Decca, EMI, Gramola and Philips labels. www.jamesjudd.net Photo credit: Miguel Alonso</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr Lara Hall has taught violin and viola at the University of Waikato since her return from the US in 2006, at which point she also began her position as concertmaster of Opus Orchestra and formed the New Zealand Chamber Soloists. Lara has released CDs as a chamber musician, concerto soloist and solo violinist on the Atoll and Naxos labels. She is the only musician to have performed variously on violin, baroque violin and viola in Chamber Music New Zealand's main series - concerts that showcase international artists. After obtaining a Bmus at the University of Auckland, study included a Doctorate at the University of Michigan (one of the top 4 universities in the USA) and a summer in the Dorothy Delay Studio (acknowledged as the top violin teacher in the world at the time). Lara has toured internationally giving performances in the UK, Europe and South America. She has also given master classes at institutions including the Royal Academy of Music in Dublin, Interlochen Arts Academy in the US, and top Asian music conservatories: Yong Siew Toh in Singapore and Shanghai. She has held short-term contracts as concertmaster of the APO and Auckland Chamber Orchestra.</image:caption>
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