JEFFREY MUMFORD

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Born in Washington, D.C. in 1955, composer Jeffrey Mumford has received numerous fellowships, grants, awards including the “Academy Award in Music” from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an ASCAP Aaron Copland Scholarship. He was also the winner of the inaugural National Black Arts Festival/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition. 

Mumford’s most notable commissioners include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, the Grossman Ensemble at the University of Chicago, Chamber Music America, the Parker Quartet, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and the Library of Congress. 

Recent collaborations include a new work for the JACK Quartet, entitled deepening paths of resonant light commissioned by the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, a new work for solo cello, from within  . . . unveiling brightness commissioned by Alisa Weilerstein as part of her Fragments project, for Clare, a new work for solo piano commissioned by Clare Longendyke, a new work for the Parker Quartet, blossoming fragments of appreciation, a new work for violist Jordan Bak and harpist Ashley Jackson entitled stillness echoing, a new work for the String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC), cavernous echoes of expanding brightness, and a harp concerto for Anne-Sophie Bertrand. His latest CD of recent concerti, entitled “echoing depths” has just been released on Albany Records. 

Mumford is currently Distinguished Professor at Lorain County Community College in Northern Ohio. He is published by Theodore Presser Co. and Quicklight Music and represented by Black Tea Music.

Photo: Irene Haupt