Panama City Viola Concert

Jennifer Stumm, a renowned violist, will be in concert at the National Theater in Panama City on Saturday evening,  July 12 at 8 pm. The Washington Post referred to one of Ms. Stumm’s early performances as “smart and engaging” with an “opal like beauty” and “a wonderful way of finding color in a phrase and injecting phosphorescent energy through rhythm.” She will be accompanied by the accomplished pianist, Elizabeth Pridgen, whom the American Record Guide refers to as a “big piano presence.”

Ms. Stumm, a dynamic and innovative musician, is the winner of three major competitions. In 2006 she was the first violist to win first prize in the nearly sixty years of the Concert Artists Guild competition. She placed first in the William Primrose and Geneva Competitions in 2005 and received honors from the Vriendenkrans of Amstersdam’s Concertgebouw.

Ms. Stumm’s concert appearances include the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Grachten Festival in Amsterdam, the Kennedy Center, New York’s Merkin Concert Hall, Symphony Space’s Thalia Theater in New York, the Philadelphia Brahms Festival, and CAG’s New Music/New Places series. She has been heard on broadcasts throughout the world on a series of recordings that she made for the BBC. She is the violist of the London-based Aronowitz Ensemble, resident New Generation Artist at the BBC, and is a regular participant at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, both in Cornwall, England and on tour.  Ms. Stumm recently recorded her debut release for the Naxos label – an album of works by Italian composer/violist Alessandro Rolla (1757-1841).  

Elizabeth Pridgen’s recent engagements include concerts at Alice Tully Hall, the Kosciuszko Foundation and the DACOR Bacon House in Washington D.C., as well as solo recitals in Atlanta, Long Island and Curacao. Ms. Pridgen has performed with Yo-Yo Ma, the Silk Road Ensemble, and the Mark Morris Dance Group as well as Hilary Hahn, Lynn Harrell, Robert McDuffie, Mark O'Connor and Rachel Barton Pine. She frequently collaborates with members of the New York Philharmonic and Boston and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras and has performed extensively at the Tanglewood Music Festival and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival.