Walter Cummings

Biography

Walter Cummings's 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.

Works for Winds

• Aspen Song
• Crescent Moon Floats in Blue-Pink Sky
• Eagle's Nest Overture
• Gamelan
• Grand Mesa (A Tone Poem for Band)
• Great Divide, The
• High Country Fanfare
• Hill Country March
• Life on the Arkansas
• March for the 95th
• Mile High Magic (Variations on Denver, Colorado)
• Montana Bound!
• Music Machine
• Overland Trail
• Portrait of a Western City
• Procession of Stars
• Quiet Rain, A
• Rattler in a Rapid
• Red Canyon Echoes
• Richness of the Earth, The
• River of Gold
• Royal Gorge
• Run Boys Run
• San Juan Vistas
• Shining Mountains, The
• Skeletons Dance Under Full Moon
• Song for the Winter Moon
• Songs of the Waters
• Star Spangled Rhapsody
• Sunset Samba
• Three Episodes for Trumpet and Band
• Woodland Park Overture

References

Grand Mesa Music Publishers - Official Website