Craig Mumm is in his 24th season as associate principal violist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Mr. Mumm began his career in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and went on to become the assistant principal violist of the Lyric Opera Orchestra of Chicago and also the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra. He grew up in Chicago and Milwaukee, where his musical studies began with his father, Edward Mumm, former concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and continued with Shmuel Ashkenasi of the Vermeer String Quartet. Mr. Mumm is a frequent performer with James Levine and the MET Chamber Ensemble Carnegie Hall Concert series. He is a frequent competition adjudicator, symposium and master class clinician for the American String Teachers Association and was selected to be a presenter at the 2006 ASTA National Conference. Mr. Mumm has presented masterclasses in Boston at the Longy School and the Boston Conservatory, and was on the faculty of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in Brussels, Belgium for their European tour. In addition to his orchestral work, Mr. Mumm maintains an active career as private teacher, soloist, chamber and recording musician.