{"id":69915,"date":"2019-09-27T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=69915"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:42:44","slug":"william-lumpkin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/william-lumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"William Lumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Lumpkin\u2019s extensive repertoire and career have led to engagements with Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Boston Lyric Opera, having previously served on the music staff for Los Angeles Opera, Aspen Opera Theatre, and Wolf Trap Opera. Additionally, Maestro Lumpkin led performances of the Mary Zimmerman production of Philip Glass\u2019s Galileo Galilei as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music\u2019s New Wave Festival, having previously conducted world premiere performances at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Most recently, Mr. Lumpkin conducted performances of Die Entf\u00fchrung aus dem Serail at Opera Grand Rapids with members of the Grand Rapids Symphony in a production directed by Eve Summer and was guest conductor for The Meadows School for the Arts at Southern Methodist University production of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. Mr. Lumpkin conducted the American premiere of Jonathan Dove\u2019s Flight with Opera Theatre of St. Louis and again for Boston Lyric Opera, which Opera News praised, stating \u201cDove\u2019s impressive score was conducted wonderfully by another veteran of the Saint Louis production, William Lumpkin.\u201d Additional credits at St. Louis include La boh\u00e8me, The Magic Flute, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Hansel and Gretel. He also joined Boston Lyric Opera to conduct Cos\u00ec fan tutte. Of this production, Opera News stated \u201cLumpkin kept his players and singers under firm control, at the same time allowing them sufficient liberty to bring out nuances in their performances,\u201d and the Boston Globe noted \u201cHis work had brio, style, and heart, and the orchestra played beautifully for him.\u201d As Associate Professor of Music and the Artistic Director and Conductor for the Opera Institute at Boston University, he has conducted over 40 opera productions, including a co-production with Glimmerglass Opera of E. Loren Meeker\u2019s production of Janacek\u2019s The Cunning Little Vixen, a co-commission with New York City Opera of Tobias Picker\u2019s chamber version of his opera Dolores Claiborne, and a concert version of Vanessa with Boston University alum Lauren Flanigan. He has also appeared as guest conductor at Indiana University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a pianist, Mr. Lumpkin collaborated with Juliana Gondek recording Roger Bour-land\u2019s Four Quartets of Songs and Arias for Navona Records. A native of Lewisburg, PA, Mr. Lumpkin holds a BM from the Eastman School of Music, an MM in Conducting from UCSB, and a DMA from the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15966,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/69915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/69915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72921,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/69915\/revisions\/72921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}