Jennifer Stumm

Jennifer Stumm
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Violist
Instruments	Viola
Labels	Naxos, Sonimage
Website	[1]

Jennifer Stumm is an American violist.

Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, and a graduate of The Westminster Schools, Stumm studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with the viola pedagogue Karen Tuttle. She also studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and earned her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School in New York. Stumm now divides her time between activities in the United States and in Europe. She also studied with violist Nobuko Imai and cellist Steven Isserlis whom she met at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove. Stumm is outspoken in support of the viola's own identity as an instrument distinct from the violin.

Stumm was a prize winner at three competitions — first prize of the 2005 Primrose International Viola Competition, second prize at the International Competition in Geneva and the Vriendenkrans Concours of the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam in 2005. In 2006 she became the first viola player to win first prize of the Concert Artist Guild International Auditions in New York. Her recent performances include her Carnegie Hall recital debut, Kennedy Center debut in Washington, D.C. as well as performances at Alice Tully Hall, New York, the Wigmore Hall and St. John's, Smith Square, London and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, at the Sitka Festival in Alaska and the National Concert Hall of Panama. She has performed Don Quixote (a tone poem for cello, viola and orchestra by Richard Strauss) with conductor Yan-Pascal Tortellier at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and the Sage, Gateshead, and the Bartok Concerto with the Hamburger Sinfonikern in Berlin and the L'Orchestre du Chambre, Geneva. She has appeared in the Rising Stars Series of the Ravinia Festival, Chicago, at the Verbier Festival, Switzerland, and has been heard on BBC Radio 3, NPR, and the Dutch and German national radio networks. For the BBC, she performed in Scotland and at the Sage Gateshead's Festival of Russian Music, as well as two live Wigmore Hall performances. She made her BBC Proms debut in 2008, returning in 2009. She appeared on the cover of Symphony Magazine's January 2011 issue. In 2011 she spoke about the viola in a talk, "The Imperfect Instrument," at the TEDx Aldeburgh conference.

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