Career
He is also a conductor, composer, author, and teacher. Thomas Stumpf received his degrees in piano performance from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He was awarded and the Lilli Lehmann Meda
He has appeared with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Boston Pops Orchestra (under Arthur Fiedler), Alea III (under Theodore Antoniou), and the Lexington Symphony.
Stumpf is a well-known collaborative pianist, and in that role, he has performed with Rita Streich, Edith Mathis, Doctorate"Anna Fortunato, Richard Stoltzman, Jack Brymer, Walter Trampler and Leslie Parnas. He has premiered many compositions by contemporary American composers and is a composer himself.
In 2005, his choral work “Though I walk” was premiered at Saint Bartholomew’s in New York City by the Pharos Music Project. In his spare time he also works on musicals with the two middle schools in Lexington.
He also conducts the Follen Youth Choir, and directs 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. Stumpf has taught piano at the New England Conservatory and Boston University (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 (where he has been the head of the keyboard department) and is currently on the Applied Music faculty at Tufts University.
