Richard Cumming

Richard Cumming. Writer: Great Performances. Composer, conductor, pianist and teacher, educated at San Francisco Community College and Conservatory, and a student of Roger Sessions, Ernest Bloch, Arnold Schoenberg, and Rudolf Firkusny through Ford and Wurlitzer grants. He toured as a concert pianist and accompanied concert singers, and he also was the assistant conductor for the Santa Fe Opera. Winning first prize in the NFMC Young Composers Contest in 1954, he...