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Stephen
Rumph, has established himself as a leading tenor in both opera and
oratorio. Last season he sang Rodolfo in La Boheme with
Tacoma Opera, and the tenor solo in Mozart's Requiem withNorthwest
Sinfonietta. Other recent engagements include Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony and Rachmaninoff's The Bells with Tacoma Symphony,
Distler's Weihnachtsoratorium with Northwest Chamber Chorus, Aeneas
with Whitman College, and Tamino with Skagit Opera. He has also sung
Beethoven's Mass in C Major with both Orchestra Seattle and the
Kirkland Choral Society, Bach's St. John Passion with Seattle
Choral Company, and Haydn's "Nelson" Mass with Cascadian
Chorale.
A Bay Area native, Stephen has performed with regional companies through
the San Francisco area, singing Rodolfo, Tamino, Hoffmann, Duca, Lenski,
Ramiro, Lindoro, Alfred, and Eisenstein. He has created leading roles in
several new operas, including Anselmus in John Thow's Serpentina
(Berkeley Opera) and "X" in Howard Hersh's The History Lesson
(Sacramento Festival of New Music).
Stephen studied voice at Oberlin Conservatory, and earned his Ph.D. in
musicology at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches music
history at the University of Washington. |