Peter Stumpf (cellist)

{{Short description|American cellist}}

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Peter Stumpf is the former principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He was educated first at the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Orlando Cole and then the New England Conservatory. He started his professional career at age sixteen as a cellist in the Hartford Symphony, then spent twelve years as associate principal of the Philadelphia Orchestra, before assuming his position at the start of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2002/2003 season.{{cite web | title = Musician Details: Peter Stumpf | publisher = Los Angeles Philharmonic | date = April 2007 | url = http://www.laphil.com/resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=770 | accessdate = May 21, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070310220704/http://www.laphil.com/resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=770 | archive-date = March 10, 2007 | url-status = dead }} He took a year's sabbatical from the LA Phil in 2011 to teach full-time at Indiana University's Jacob School of Music.{{cite web | url=http://allisyar.com/2011/06/15/la-phil-comings-and-goings-part-1-of-3/ | title=LA Phil comings and goings (part 1 of 3): As the Principal Cello chair turns . . . |work=All is Yar | first=CK Dexter | last=Haven | date=June 15, 2011| accessdate=December 11, 2012}} He left the orchestra permanently in 2012.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Stumpf is also the cellist of the Johannes String Quartet.{{cite web | title = Johannes String Quartet Biography | publisher = Frank Salomon Associates | year = 2007 | url = http://www.franksalomon.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=26 | accessdate = May 21, 2007 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070416134312/http://www.franksalomon.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=26 |archivedate = April 16, 2007}} Musicians he has collaborated with include Emanuel Ax, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Mitsuko Uchida, and the Emerson String Quartet.{{cite web | title = Saint Paul Sunday: Johannes String Quartet | publisher = American Public Media | url = http://saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org/artists/artist/index.php?ac=johannes_string_quartet | accessdate = May 21, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100705165358/http://saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org/artists/artist/index.php?ac=johannes_string_quartet | archive-date = July 5, 2010 | url-status = dead }}

Stumpf has also taught the cello at the New England Conservatory and USC Thornton School of Music,{{cite web | title = Faculty Profiles: Peter Stumpf | publisher = University of Southern California | url = http://www.usc.edu/schools/music/private/faculty/stumpf.php | accessdate = May 21, 2007 }}