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LIAM CUMMINS

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About Liam

Liam Cummins is an Ohio-born, New York-based composer of concert music. His music embraces eclecticism, polarity and lyricism, seeking new windows into age-old traditions. 
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His music has been widely recognized for its nuanced craft and broad emotional range. He is a recipient of a 2024 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a winner of a 2023 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and the 2022 YoungArts Gold Winner in Classical Music. In 2022 he was the only young composer in the country nominated for consideration as a United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts. His music has received recognition by organizations and ensembles including Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York Youth Symphony, Tribeca New Music, American Composers Orchestra, National Young Composers Challenge, Juilliard's AXIOM ensemble, The Juilliard Orchestra, the New England Philharmonic, Icarus Quartet, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and NPR's The American Sound. This year his music premieres at The Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, the Aspen Music Festival and other venues around the United States.

Liam is pursuing his Bachelor of Music degree at The Juilliard School, studying with John Corigliano.
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July 2025 (reading) | New work for orchestra
Benedict Music Tent, Aspen Music Festival School
Aspen, CO
Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra
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