Liam Cummins writes music that builds bridges, bringing wide-ranging ideas and people together. His compositions embrace grand gesture and subtle nuance, vibrant lyricism and bitter dissonance, high drama and piercing simplicity. Knitting together diverse materials and sound-worlds, he seeks new windows into age-old traditions.
His music has been widely recognized for its incisive craft and emotional sensitivity. He has received recent commissions from Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York Youth Symphony, Orchestra Lumos, The Juilliard School's AXIOM, and Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, among other orchestras, ensembles and soloists across the United States and beyond. He is a recipient of a 2024 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2023 ASCAP Morton Gould Award, and the 2022 YoungArts Gold award in Classical Music.
This year his music premieres at The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, the Aspen Music Festival and other venues around the country.
Liam is pursuing his Bachelor of Music degree at The Juilliard School, studying with John Corigliano.
His music has been widely recognized for its incisive craft and emotional sensitivity. He has received recent commissions from Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York Youth Symphony, Orchestra Lumos, The Juilliard School's AXIOM, and Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, among other orchestras, ensembles and soloists across the United States and beyond. He is a recipient of a 2024 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2023 ASCAP Morton Gould Award, and the 2022 YoungArts Gold award in Classical Music.
This year his music premieres at The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, the Aspen Music Festival and other venues around the country.
Liam is pursuing his Bachelor of Music degree at The Juilliard School, studying with John Corigliano.
Next EventsFebruary 9, 2026 | A Creed of my Own [PREMIERE]
Paul Hall, The Juilliard School Jack Gao, piano, Gaeun Kim, cello |