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Stephen Rumph, recently arrived in Seattle, has already
established himself as a leading tenor in both opera and oratorio. This
season he will sing Rudolfo in La Boheme with Tacoma Opera, and the tenor
solo in Mozart's Requiem with Northwest 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. |
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