Jeffrey Mumford

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. 

Other grants have been awarded by the Ohio Arts Council, Meet the Composer, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music Inc., the ASCAP Foundation, and the University of California. 

Mumford's most notable commissions include those from 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 Network for New Music, ‘cellist Mariel Roberts, the Fulcrum Point New Music Project (through New Music USA), Duo Harpverk (Iceland), the Sphinx Consortium, the Cincinnati Symphony, the VERGE Ensemble /National Gallery of Art/Contemporary Music Forum, the Argento Chamber Ensemble, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Nancy Ruyle Dodge Charitable Trust, the Meet the Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA, Cincinnati radio station WGUC, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, the Fromm Music Foundation, and the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress. 

His music has been performed extensively, by major orchestras, soloists, and ensembles, both in the United States and abroad, including London, Paris, Reykjavik, Vienna, The Hague, Russia and Lithuania. 

Recent and forthcoming performances include the premiere of let us breathe (solo ‘cello) by Dan Culnan, as part of the Cincinnati Symphony’s “Fanfares’ project, and subsequent performances by Annie Jacobs-Perkins as part of a recital at the New England Conservatory of Music, and by Alan Richardson as part of a residency at Levine Music in Washington, D.C., wending by violist Jordan Bak, undiluted days by the Merz Trio, the premiere of .fleeting cycles of layered air (solo violin) by Miranda Cuckson, as part of the Fromm concert series sponsored by Harvard University, and a landscape of interior resonances by pianists Robert Fleitz and Steven Beck. Pianist Pina Napolitano will include his two Elliott Carter tributes in her European concerts this and coming seasons, and has recorded them as part her recently released CD entitled “Tempo e Tempi” (Odradek Records -ODRCD378). 

Current projects include a new work for the JACK Quartet, a new work for solo ‘cello, entitled from within  . . . unveiling brightness, commissioned by Alisa Weilerstein as part of her “Fragments“ project, for Clare,  a new work for solo piano commissioned by pianist Clare Longendyke as part of  “UnRaveling”, a project responding to and reimagining Ravel’s piano music,  a new work for violist Jordan Bak, and a CD of recent concerti.

He also was featured in masterclasses at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY and Levine Music in Washington, D.C.

This past summer his music was featured at the June in Buffalo Festival, Kneisel Hall and Tanglewood.

Mumford has taught at the Washington Conservatory of Music, served as Artist-in-Residence at Bowling Green State University, and served as assistant professor of composition and Composer-in-Residence at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. He is currently Distinguished Professor at Lorain County Community College in Northern Ohio. 

Mr. Mumford is published by Theodore Presser Co. and Quicklight Music and represented by Black Tea Music.