JEFFREY MUMFORD

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Born in Washington, D.C. in 1955, composer Jeffrey Mumford has received numerous fellowships, grants, awards and commissions.

Awards include the “Academy Award in Music” from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, 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 commissions include those from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and the Library of Congress (co-commission), the BBC Philharmonic, the San Antonio, Chicago & National Symphonies, Washington Performing Arts, the Nancy Ruyle Dodge Charitable Trust, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, the Fromm Music Foundation, and the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress.

Recent and forthcoming performances include let us breathe (solo ‘cello) by Dan Culnan, as part of the Cincinnati Symphony’s “Fanfares” project, wending by violist Jordan Bak, undiluted days by the Merz Trio, fleeting cycles of layered air by Miranda Cuckson, as part of the Fromm concert series sponsored by Harvard University, brightness dispersed (‘cello & string orchestra) by Mariel Roberts & The String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Pianist Pina Napolitano has recorded his two Elliott Carter tributes as part her recently released CD entitled “Tempo e Tempi” (Odradek Records -ODRCD378).

Current projects include quartets for the JACK Quartet, entitled deepening paths of resonant light, (Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum commission), and the Parker Quartet (commissioned by them to celebrate their 20th Anniversary, a  new work for violist Jordan Bak, and harpist Ashley Jackson, a work for the String Orchestra of New York City (Koussevitzky commission) and a CD of recent concerti.

Photo: Irene Haupt