Jennifer Stumm is a concert violist, professor of viola at the University of Music and Arts of the City of Vienna and director of the Ilumina Festival in São Paulo.
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia,[1] Stumm studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with the viola pedagogue Karen Tuttle.
She later studied with violist Nobuko Imai in Amsterdam and cellist Steven Isserlis whom she met at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove.
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.
Stumm's collaborative partners have included members of the Beaux Arts Trio, Guaneri, Juilliard and Alban Berg Quartets, and the period ensemble L'Archibudelli.