| After serving 12 years as the Associate Principal Cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Peter Stumpf became the Principal Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the start of the 2002/2003 season. At the age of 16 he began his professional career, playing in the Hartford Symphony. He received a bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory. A dedicated chamber music musician, he is a member of the Johannes String Quartet and has appeared on the chamber music series at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and at the concert halls of Cologne, at the Concertgebeow in Amsterdam, and at Casals Hall in Tokyo. He has performed with the chamber music societies of Boston and Philadelphia and at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico as well as the Festivals of Marlboro, Santa Fe, Ojai, Spoleto, and Aspen. He has toured with Music from Marlboro, the Casals Hall Ensemble in Japan, and with pianist Mitsuko Uchida in performances of the complete Mozart Piano Trios. He has collaborated with pianists Emmanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Andras Schiff, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Jorge Bolet, Radu Lupu, Mitsuko Uchida, Jean Yves Thibaudet and with the Emerson and Guarneri Quarterts. Concerto appearances have been with the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and at the Aspen Music Festival. His awards include first prize in the Washington International Competition, the Graham-Stahl Competition, the Aspen Concerto Competition and 2 nd Prize in the Evian International String Quartet Competition. As a teacher he has served on the cello faculty of the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, the New England Conservatory, and guest artist faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music. |
