grew up in Northern Frisia and received her first instrumental music lesson at the age of four. Already during the school years she was active as organ player and choir director in the north of Germany. From 1994 until 1999 she studied church music in Hamburg and changed, after a six months long stay in Malmö (Sweden), to the Music Conservatory in Lübeck.
She received an award for the performance of the oratory "De Angelis" of Jürgen Essl in the frame of her A-examination.
Almut Stümke as participated in different seminars for choir leaders, amongst these a master class with Frieder Bernius, and has performed under Eric Ericson at the Schleswig-Holstein-Music-Festival.
From 2001 to 2003 she has worked as a church musician in Hamburg. Now she works as a free lance choir director with choirs of all types, as lecturer for choir directing at the Hamburg Conservatory and as vocal coach at the Hamburger Michel church choir. She has recorded a CD "Of lillies of the valley, automn storms and snow flakes" with Scandinavian choir music with her chamber choir "consonare hamburg".
Almut Stümke has been lecturer at the German-Scandinavian Music Week since 2004.
