Cynthia Stephens Stoop has a performance degree with honors in cello as a major and a minor in piano, graduate work in string pedagogy, graduate cello study with the late Andre Navarra in Detmold, Germany and Sienna, Italy. She studied Suzuki violin and cello at Ithaca College and Catholic University and Suzuki piano with Mary Craig Powell at Capital University. She has performed with many orchestras, chamber orchestras, and chamber groups in the United States, Germany, and England. She is trained, licensed and certified to teach Suzuki cello, piano and violin. Ms. Stoop has successfully satisfied all training requirements to be a licensed center director of Music Together®, Kindermusik®, and Musikgarten®.

       She has brought the teaching experience of her many years in her very successful private studio of cello, violin, viola, piano and chamber ensembles to The Center for Music, a non-profit arts-enrichment entity, founded and created together with her husband, Ds. Christoph A.C.Stoop.  Ms. Stoop credits and honors Professor Emeritus of cello, Leighton Conkling and violinist/ teacher/conductor, John (Giovanni) Smarelli for instilling and nurturing the love of music and music making in her life. Cynthia also thanks her parents for their support of all the years of lessons.