Stephen Rumsey has worked in music since the late 1960s as facilitator and teacher, composer and performer. Early appointments were to the conducting staff of Morley College in London and the teaching staff of Brentwood School and the University of Essex as well as the musical direction of choirs such as Basildon and Ipswich Choral Societies and the artistic direction of SyrinxMusic amongst much else. For some years Stephen Rumsey was also on the Council of the Society for the Promotion of New Music, one of Great Britain’s premier supporters and enablers of composers and new work.
Stephen Rumsey is immensely proud to list among his most Influential mentors and teachers at the University of Leeds, L’Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, and the Dartington International Summer School Denzil Floyd, John Carewe, Alexander Goehr, Philip Wilby, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Peter Maxwell Davies and Hans Keller. There are however so many more colleagues and friends from whom he has learnt so much over the decades and without whom Stephen Rumsey recognises he would not be having such a wonderful time in music-making as he is.