Cumming, Richard
Richard Cumming was born in Shanghai in 1928, raised in Manila and schooled on the West Coast of the United States. He studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and with Ernest Bloch, Arnold Schoenberg and Roger Sessions. As a pianist, he has worked with (among others) Lili Kraus and Rudolf Firkusny and has toured the United States, Canada, Europe and the Far East as a soloist, Assistant Conductor of the Santa Fe Opera and accompanist for numerous instrumentalists and singers. He has composed over 60 theatre scores and gained international notice when his score for Norman Holland’s “Years of the Locust” was presented by the Trinity Square Repertory Company of Providence, Rhode Island during their engagement at the Edinburgh Festival in 1968. He passed away in 2009.
