Walter Cummings composer / arranger

Cummings, Walter geb. in Greenville, Mississippi, 29. Juli 1953. Nachdem er als Musikpädagoge an verschiedenen Schulen tätig war, gründete er 1991 den Musikverlag Grand Mesa Music Publishers.

Walter Cummings (b. 1953) has taught band for 14 years at the college, high school, and middle school levels in Mississippi, New Hampshire, and Colorado, and is owner of Grand Mesa Music. His compositions for school band are rapidly gaining wide acceptance, and have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia by a variety of school, clinic, and community bands. Cummings is currently a free-lance composer and low brass performer, and teaches low brass at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, CO. Playing positions held by Cummings include tubaist with the Grand Junction Symphony and Mesa State College Faculty Brass Quintet. He holds degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi (BMEd and MM in Conducting), the University of Colorado (MMEd), and the University of Northern Colorado (Doctor of Arts in Conducting). Composition prizes won by Dr. Cummings include the Colorado Music Educators Association Band Composition Contest, as well as ten ASCAP Awards for excellence in serious music composition.