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Jeffrey Mumford
Born in Washington, D.C. on June 22, 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, a Fellowship to the Composers' Conference, Johnson, Vermont and an ASCAP Aaron Copland Scholarship. He was also the winner of the inaugural National Black Arts Festival/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition. Other grants have been awarded by the Ohio Arts Council, Oberlin College, the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities (funded through the NEA), the Minnesota Composers' Forum, the American Music Center, the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Meet the Composer, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music Inc., the ASCAP Foundation, and the University of California.
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Mumford's most notable commissions include those from the Sphinx Consortium, the Cincinnati Symphony, the National Gallery of Art/Contemporary Music Forum VERGE Ensemble, the Argento Chamber Ensemble, Ole Bohn, the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt (Vienna), the Network for New Music, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a consortium of presenters consisting of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Chamber Music Columbus (OH.) and Omus Hirshbein (New York) (for the Pacifica Quartet and pianist Amy Briggs), Cleveland radio station WCLV, violist Wendy Richman, the Nancy Ruyle Dodge Charitable Trust (for the Corigliano Quartet), a consortium of presenters consisting of the Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.), Miller Theatre (New York) and the Schubert Club (St. Paul, MN.) (for pianist Margaret Kampmeier), the Contemporary Music Forum of Washington, D.C. andPhilip Berlin, Sonia and Louis Rothschild (for the Opus 3 Trio), the Theatre Chamber Players, the Meet the Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA program (for the CORE Ensemble), the National Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati radio station WGUC, 'cellist Joshua Gordon, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation , the Fromm Music Foundation, the Amphion Foundation (for the Da Capo Chamber Players), the New York New Music Ensemble, the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress, the Aspen Wind Quintet, and 'cellist Fred Sherry.
Mumford's works have been extensively performed both in the United States and abroad, including Paris’ Theatre Dunois, Miller Theatre, the Library of Congress, the Aspen Music Festival, the Bang On A Can Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, San Migel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, London's Purcell Room, Finland's prestigious Helsinki Festival, the Musica nel Nostro Tempo Festival, in Milan and the Musikverein in Vienna. His works have been performed by such major orchestras as the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the National, Detroit and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras, theMinnesota Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the American Composers' Orchestra. His chamber works have been performed by major ensembles such as the Linden, Formosa, Pacifica, Corigliano, Avalon, Maia and Borromeo Quartets, the Mann Duo, the CORE Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Network for New Music, Imani Winds, theAmelia Piano Trio, the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Ensemble, Voices of Change, the New Music Consort, theNew York New Music Ensemble, the Aspen Wind Quintet, the Group for Contemporary Music, and the Da Capo Chamber Players. Among the prominent soloists who have performed his music have been violinists Rachel Barton Pine, Kurt Nikkanen,Lina Bahn, Miranda Cuckson, Ole Bohn, Kelly Hall-Tompkins and James Dickenson, 'cellists Julia Bruskin, Darrett Adkins,Frances-Marie Uitti, Joshua Gordon, Tanya Ell, Tahirah Whittington and Fred Sherry, violists Misha Amory, Wendy Richman, and Eliesha Nelson and pianists Winston Choi, Lura Johnson, Jenny Lin, Tuyen Tonnu, Shannon Wettstein, Amy Briggs, Eliza Garth, Margaret Kampmeier and Sarah Cahill. Mumford is also a composer-member of the Washington, D.C. based VERGE Ensemble, which has performed his music many times.
Mumford's works have been extensively performed both in the United States and abroad, including Paris’ Theatre Dunois, Miller Theatre, the Library of Congress, the Aspen Music Festival, the Bang On A Can Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, San Migel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, London's Purcell Room, Finland's prestigious Helsinki Festival, the Musica nel Nostro Tempo Festival, in Milan and the Musikverein in Vienna. His works have been performed by such major orchestras as the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the National, Detroit and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras, theMinnesota Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the American Composers' Orchestra. His chamber works have been performed by major ensembles such as the Linden, Formosa, Pacifica, Corigliano, Avalon, Maia and Borromeo Quartets, the Mann Duo, the CORE Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Network for New Music, Imani Winds, theAmelia Piano Trio, the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Ensemble, Voices of Change, the New Music Consort, theNew York New Music Ensemble, the Aspen Wind Quintet, the Group for Contemporary Music, and the Da Capo Chamber Players. Among the prominent soloists who have performed his music have been violinists Rachel Barton Pine, Kurt Nikkanen,Lina Bahn, Miranda Cuckson, Ole Bohn, Kelly Hall-Tompkins and James Dickenson, 'cellists Julia Bruskin, Darrett Adkins,Frances-Marie Uitti, Joshua Gordon, Tanya Ell, Tahirah Whittington and Fred Sherry, violists Misha Amory, Wendy Richman, and Eliesha Nelson and pianists Winston Choi, Lura Johnson, Jenny Lin, Tuyen Tonnu, Shannon Wettstein, Amy Briggs, Eliza Garth, Margaret Kampmeier and Sarah Cahill. Mumford is also a composer-member of the Washington, D.C. based VERGE Ensemble, which has performed his music many times.
