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Stephen Rumph has established himself as a leading tenor in opera, oratorio, and concert. The Tacoma News Tribune called his singing "soaringly beautiful, unspeakably tender as Puccini should be." The San Francisco Classical Voice wrote that his "incisive, well-controlled tenor was joined to lovely legato phrasing," and the San Francisco Chronicle reported that he "launched into the vocal stratosphere fearlessly, with excellent results." Mr. Rumph recently made his Seattle Symphony debut in Bach's Cantata 171. Recent operatic credits include Don José (Carmen) and Tamino (The Magic Flute) with Skagit Valley Opera, Rodolfo (La Bohème) and Orpheus (Orpheus in the Underworld) with Tacoma Opera, Consulo and Familiare (L'incoronazione di Poppea) with the Early Music Guild, Alfred (Die Fledermaus) and David (Die Meistersinger) with Berkeley Opera, and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) with Whitman College. This season he will sing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Northwest Sinfonietta, a work he has performed with the Tacoma Symphony and Port Angeles Symphony. He has sung Mozart's Requiem with both the Walla Walla Symphony and Northwest Sinfonietta, Das Lied von der Erde with the Northwest Mahler Festival, Handel's Messiah and Rachmaninoff's The Bells with Tacoma Symphony, Bach's Mass in B Minor with the Lake Chelan Bach Fest, Beethoven's Mass in C with both Orchestra Seattle and the Kirkland Choral Society, Puccini and Verdi selections with the Federal Way Symphony, and the Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion with Seattle Choral Company.
A Bay Area native, Mr. Rumph has performed with regional companies through the San Francisco area in such roles as Rodolfo, Tamino, Alfred, Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), Duca (Rigoletto), Lenski (Eugene Onegin), Ramiro (La Cenerentola), and Lindoro (L'italiana in Algeri). He has created leading roles in several new operas, and will present a faculty recital this year at the University of Washington. Mr. Rumph studied with Richard Miller at the Oberlin Conservatory and currently works with Fred Carama. |