Thomas Stumpf is a classical pianist in the

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area. He is also a conductor, composer, author, and teacher.

Biography

Thomas Stumpf received his degrees in piano performance from the

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in Salzburg, Austria, and the

New England Conservatory The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest independent music conservatory in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. The conservatory is located on Hu ...

of Music in Boston. He was awarded the Bösendorfer Prize and the

Lilli Lehmann Medal The Lilli Lehmann Medal is an award by the Mozarteum International Foundation, named in honour of soprano Lilli Lehmann. Recipients Among the people who have received it are: * Ruth Kemper * Margaret Halstead, 1933 * Irmgard Seefried * George ...

. He has appeared with the

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, the

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(under

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), Alea III (under

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), and the Lexington Symphony. Stumpf is a well-known collaborative pianist, and in that role, he has performed with

Rita Streich Rita Streich (18 December 192020 March 1987) was one of the most admired and recorded lyric coloratura sopranos of the post-war period. Biography Rita Streich was born in Barnaul, southern Siberia, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Repu ...

Edith Mathis Edith Mathis (born 11 February 1938) is a Swiss soprano and a leading exponent of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart worldwide. She is known for parts in Mozart operas, but also took part in premieres of operas such as Henze's ''Der junge Lord' ...

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, Jack Brymer,

Walter Trampler Walter Trampler (August 25, 1915 – September 27, 1997) was a German musician and teacher of the viola and viola d'amore. Born in Munich, he was given his first lessons at age six by his violinist father. While still in his youth, he played well e ...

and

Leslie Parnas Leslie Parnas (November 11, 1931 – February 1, 2022) was an American classical cellist. A prize winner at several international music competitions, he appeared as a soloist with orchestras around the world and performed and recorded a number of ...

. He has premiered many compositions by contemporary American composers and is a composer himself. Stumpf's compositions have appeared on concert programs in Boston, throughout the United States as well as in Germany and the U.S.S.R.; in 1992 he won the Kahn Award for his music theater project "Dark Lady," one section of which was recorded on the Neuma label by soprano Joan Heller. In 2005, his choral work “Though I walk” was premiered at St. Bartholomew’s in New York City by the Pharos Music Project. He is Director Emeritus of Music at Follen Church Society-Unitarian Universalist in

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, where he conducted the Senior Choir in many major choral works, from Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Mozart's Requiem to Britten's "Ceremony of Carols" and the Sacred Concerts of Duke Ellington. In his spare time he also works on musicals with the two middle schools in Lexington. He also conducted the Follen Youth Choir, and directed the Youth and Junior Choirs every June in fully staged, double cast productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. His experience at Follen led to his first book: a collection of essays entitled "A Sounding Mirror: Courage and Music in our Time," published in 2005 by Higganum Hill Books. He is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of Prism Opera, and has conducted and directed Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito" (in his own translation), as well as operas by Britten, Vaughan Williams and Holst. Stumpf has taught piano at the

and

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(where he was Chair of the Collaborative Piano Department from 1990 to 1997). He regularly gives master-classes at the Musikschule in Mannheim, Germany. He has taught at

University of Massachusetts Lowell The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of Massachusetts public u ...

(where he has been the head of the keyboard department) and is currently on the Applied Music faculty at

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Awards

*Bösendorfer Prize (Vienna, 1970) *

(Salzburg, 1972) *Kahn Award (Boston, 1992)

External links

Thomas Stumpf

Discography

"A Sounding Mirror"

References

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