Musical Experience
RECENT EVENTS
July 28, 2021
With Any Luck We'll Be Fine, read by the Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra at Colby College in Waterville, Maine
July 5, 2021
Strong Coffee, performed by the Atlantic Music Festival's Contemporary Ensemble as part of the AMF New Music series at Colby College in Waterville, Maine
May 18, 2021
Song of the Wind, professionally recorded by Contemporary Youth Orchestra in Cleveland Ohio
April 7, 2021
Forest Melodies, performed by flutist Mimi Stillman as part of Dolce Suono Ensemble's ComposerLab Flute: Young American Composers, online
January 23, 2021
The Butterfly, broadcast on WOSU Ohio Public Radio's The American Sound, along with accompanying article about the creation of the piece
September 12, 2020
Fanfare to Uncertain Times, recorded by the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, Cleveland, Ohio
August, 2020
Forest Melodies for solo Flute, performed and recorded by Mimi Stillman, Curtis Institute of Music Young Artist Summer Program
July 29, 2020
Quarantine Whispers for solo Violin, performed live on YouTube by Erica Dicker, Walden School Online Young Musicians Experience
June 15, 2019
Mosaic: Trio for Piano, Cello and Clarinet, performed by Ars Futura Ensemble, Young Composers Program, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, Ohio
May 17, 2019
Cello Choir, performed by more than 30 cello students of Lindsay Brown, Mansfield, Ohio
October 7, 2018
Solo piano performance of Liam’s compositions, Kingwood Center Gardens, Mansfield, Ohio, Liam Cummins, Piano
July, 2018
The Butterfly, performed by student musicians in Newfoundland, Canada.
May 24, 2018
Solo Piano Performance of Liam’s compositions and improvisations in Woodacre, California, including Piano Sonata No. 1, 6 etudes for piano, Island Sun Quartet arr. for solo piano, and several improvisations.
April 10, 2018
The Butterfly, performed by the Ton Beau String Quartet, The Sound of Silent Voices Project, Nashville, Tennessee
November 12, 2017
The Butterfly, performed by the Ton Beau String Quartet, The Sound of Silent Voices Project, Chicago, Illinois
May 7, 2017
Cello Duet performed by local professional musicians at the Cleveland Composers Guild's Creativity: Learning Through Experience Concert, Cleveland, Ohio
November 5, 2016
The Butterfly, performed by the Ton Beau String Quartet, The Sound of Silent Voices Project, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 24, 2016
Dona Nobis Pacem improvisation performed by Liam on piano, First Congregational Church, Mansfield, Ohio
June 17, 2016
The Butterfly, performed by the Ton Beau String Quartet, The Sound of Silent Voices Project, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
COMPOSITION FESTIVALS, AWARDS, AND PROGRAMS
Atlantic Music Festival, upcoming in summer 2021, a six-week composition immersion that includes lessons, masterclasses, premieres and orchestra readings.
Recipient of the Don George Memorial Scholarship, Kaboom Collective, June 2021.
Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, May 2021.
Dolce Suono Ensemble's ComposerLab Flute: Young American Composers, March 2021, a program bringing compelling new works by young composers before a global online audience and providing an enriching professional experience for developing composers. The initiative included performances, workshops, and a masterclass with flutist Mimi Stillman and composer David Serkin Ludwig.
Kaboom Collective, 2020 and 2021, a program that matches young musicians with industry professionals who mentor emerging composers in creating music shared in innovative media and venues, including video game composition and album creation.
Curtis Institute of Music, Young Artist Summer Program, July 2020, an immersive intensive featuring private composition lessons, musicianship classes, ensembles, choral studies, lectures by celebrated musicians, and collaborative music-making opportunities. The composition Forest Melodies for solo flute was recorded by Curtis professor Mimi Stillman.
The Walden School, Online Young Musicians Experience, June-July 2020, a summer program exploring improvisation, composition and musicianship as tools for exploration, creativity and growth. The composition Quarantine Whispers for solo violin was premiered by Erica Dicker.
Mike Block String Camp, June 2020, a summer workshop for string players focusing on non-Classical traditions and contemporary musical styles, with emphasis on learning by ear, creativity, collaboration, and performance.
Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, May 2020.
Young Composers Program of the Cleveland Institute of Music, 2019, a summer program featuring private composition lessons, listening sessions, and chamber music coaching, culminating in the premiere of a work by each student composer. The composition Mosaic for piano, cello and clarinet was performed by the chamber group Ars Futura.
Creativity: Learning through Experience, May, 2017. Student composer in a concert sponsored by the Cleveland Composers Guild. Liam’s Cello Duet was performed by local professional musicians.
The Sound of Silent Voices Project, 2016 to present, which features young musicians who share their compositions created in honor of children who died in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Liam’s composition The Butterfly has been performed by professional musicians in Toronto, Chicago and Nashville. It has also been used as a teaching piece for students in a high-school orchestra program in Canada, and broadcast on the PBS program The American Sound.
Winner, Elementary Division, Ohio, and national finalist, in 2013 in the Music Teachers National Association Composition Competition, for a composition for piano.
LIST OF SELECTED COMPOSITIONS
Orchestra and Large Ensemble
With Any Luck We'll Be Fine for orchestra, 5 minutes, 2021
Endings, Beginnings for orchestra, 41 minutes, 2021
The Optimist's Fanfare for orchestra, 6 minutes, 2020
Fanfare to Uncertain Times for orchestra, 5 minutes, 2020
Piano Concerto for piano and orchestra, work in progress, 2019
Midnight for orchestra, 15 minutes, 2018 (1: Grandeur, 2: Beauty, 3: Fright)
Cello Choir for seven cellos, 6 minutes, 2019
Renaissance for string orchestra, 5 minutes, 2015
Fanfare for Found Objects for found objects, 2020
Chamber Music
Elegy Chorale for four violins, work in progress, 2021
Runaway Train Prelude for String Quartet, work in progress, 2021
Strong Coffee for Pierrot ensemble, 7 minutes, 2021
Songs of the Wind for percussion quartet, 16 minutes, 2021
Stages of Grief for woodwind quartet, 11 minutes, 2020 (1: Denial, 2: Anger, 3: Bargaining, 4: Depression, 5: Acceptance)
In Deepest Night for string quartet, piano and percussion, 10 minutes, 2020
Mosaic for piano, cello and clarinet, 8 minutes, 2019
St. John Quartet for string quartet, 4 minutes, 2018
Duet for two cellos, 3 minutes, 2017
The Butterfly for string quartet, 4 minutes, 2016
Solo
Resonance Variations for Solo Viola, work in progress, 2021
Inside Joke for Solo Piano, 3 minutes, 2021
Oasis for Solo piano, work in progress, 2021
Nachtmusik for solo piano, 10 minutes, 2020
Quarantine Whispers for solo violin, 4 minutes, 2020
A Lullaby and a Dream for solo piano, 8 minutes, 2020 (1: Lullaby, 2: Dream)
Forest Melodies for flute, 7 minutes, 2020 (1: The Lure of the Forest, 2: Wild Cat, Chasing Fish in a Stream, 3: The Dense Underbrush, Springing with Life, 4: Coyotes, Stalking a Deer, 5: The Spirit of the Forest)
Six Etudes for piano, 7 minutes, 2018
Sonata 1 for piano, 9 minutes, 2018 (1: Allegro con moto, 2: Adagio, 3: Prestissimo)
Not-A-Sonata for piano, 3 minutes, 2014
Spring Song for piano, two minutes, 2014
Journey for piano, 3 minutes, 2014
Bluebird for piano, 3 minutes, 2013
Morning Sun for piano, 3 minutes, 2012
Choral
Family Blessing for SATB choir, 5 minutes, 2020
Hope is the Thing With Feathers for SATB choir, text by Emily Dickinson, 3 minutes, 2020
MUSIC STUDY
Composition and Music Theory Instruction
Dr. Daniel Felsenfeld, Brooklyn, NY, 2020 - present
Dr. Jennifer Conner, Cleveland Institute of Music, 2015 – present
Piano Instruction
Dr. Sungeun Kim, Baldwin Wallace University, 2017 – present
Dr. Sean Schulze, Cleveland Institute of Music, 2016 – 2017
Dr. David Crane, Mansfield, Ohio, 2011 – 2016
Contemporary Improvisation Instruction
Dr. Lautaro Mantilla, New England Conservatory, 2020- present
Cello Instruction
Linsday Brown, Mansfield Ohio, 2014 – present
Organ Instruction
Dr. Timothy Guenther, Mansfield, Ohio, 2014 – 2015
Mansfield Symphony Youth Orchestra
Cellist, 2018 – present
Mansfield Symphony Youth Strings Orchestra
Principal Cellist, 2017 – 2018
Cellist, 2015 – 2017
COMMERCIAL RECORDINGS
The Butterfly, The Sound of Silent Voices, performed by the Ton Beau String Quartet, CD available for purchase at zacharyebin.com/cds.php.
Song of the Wind, for percussion quartet, recorded in 2021 by the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, Cleveland, Ohio.