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Walter Cummings
Biography
Walter Cummings (b. 1953) is an American composer and educator.
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).
Dr. 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. 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.
Playing positions held by Cummings include tubaist with the Grand Junction Symphony and Mesa State College Faculty Brass Quintet.
Cummings is currently a free-lance composer and low brass performer, and teaches low brass at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colo. He is also the owner of Grand Mesa Music.
Works for Winds
- AspenSong
- Crescent Moon Floats in Blue-Pink Sky (2002)
- Eagle's Nest Overture
- Gamelan
- Grand Mesa
- The Great Divide
- High Country Fanfare (Brass Quintet)
- High Country Fanfare (Wind Ensemble)
- Hill Country March
- Life on the Arkansas
- March for the 95th
- Mile High Magic
- Montana Bound!
- Music Machine
- Overland Trail
- Portrait of a Western City
- Procession of Stars
- A Quiet Rain
- Rattler in a Rapid
- Red Canyon Echoes
- The Richness of the Earth
- River of Gold
- Royal Gorge
- Run Boys Run
- San Juan Vistas
- The Shining Mountains
- 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
