Jennifer Stumm is internationally recognized as a musical innovator and leading voice for her instrument. Hailed by the Washington Post for the "opal-like beauty" of her sound, her 2011 TEDx talk about the viola was named an editor's pick of all talks on ted.com. Her solo career was launched after winning three major international competitions: William Primrose, Geneva, and Concert Artists Guild and she has gone on to play in the world's great concert halls. Native of Atlanta, she studied with Karen Tuttle at the Curtis Institute of Music and at the Juilliard School and also pursued interests in politics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. Jennifer Stumm is currently International Chair of Viola at the Royal College of Music, London.