Born in Washington, D.C. in 1955, composer Jeffrey Mumford has received numerous fellowships, grants, awards and commissions. Awards include the "Academy Award in Music" from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, and an ASCAP Aaron Copland Scholarship. He was also the winner of the inaugural National Black Arts Festival/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition. Other grants have been awarded by the Ohio Arts Council, Meet the Composer, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music Inc., the ASCAP Foundation, and the University of California. Mumford's most notable commissions include those from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and the Library of Congress (co-commission), the BBC Philharmonic, the San Antonio, Chicago & National Symphonies, Washington Performing Arts, the Network for New Music, ‘cellist Mariel Roberts, the Fulcrum Point New Music Project (through New Music USA), Duo Harpverk (Iceland), the Sphinx Consortium, the Cincinnati Symphony, the VERGE Ensemble /National Gallery of Art/Contemporary Music Forum, the Argento Chamber Ensemble, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Nancy Ruyle Dodge Charitable Trust, the Meet the Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA, Cincinnati radio station WGUC, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, the Fromm Music Foundation, and the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress. His music has been performed extensively, by major orchestras, soloists, and ensembles, both in the United States and abroad, including London, Paris, Reykjavik, Vienna, The Hague, Russia and Lithuania. Recent and forthcoming performances include the premiere of layering radiance . . . toward stillness by the Grossman Ensemble, let us breathe (solo ‘cello) by Annie Jacobs–Perkins, of radiances blossoming in expanding air by Annie Jacobs-Perkins and the Post Classical Ensemble, conducted by Angel Gil-Ordeonez, wending by violist Jordan Bak, undiluted days by the Merz Trio and the Talea Ensemble, the premiere of...fleeting cycles of layered air (solo violin) by Miranda Cuckson, as part of the Fromm concert series sponsored by Harvard University, brightness dispersed (‘cello & string orchestra) by Mariel Roberts & The String Orchestra of Brooklyn, her eastern light amid a cavernous dusk, by Ensemble Connect, and a landscape of interior resonances by pianists Robert Fleitz and Steven Beck. Pianist Pina Napolitano will include his two Elliott Carter tributes in her European concerts this and coming seasons and has recorded them as part her recently released CD entitled “Tempo e Tempi” (Odradek Records -ODRCD378). He has also written a concerto for her entitled unfolding waves, which is scheduled to be premiered and recorded within the next year in Berlin.Current projects include a new work for the JACK Quartet, entitled deepening paths of resonant light, commissioned by the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, a new work for solo ‘cello, entitled from within . . . unveiling brightness, commissioned by Alisa Weilerstein as part of her “Fragments“ project, for Clare, a new work for solo piano commissioned by pianist Clare Longendyke as part of “UnRaveling”, a project responding to and reimagining Ravel’s piano music, a new work for the Parker Quartet entitled blossoming fragments of appreciation, a new work for violist Jordan Bak, and harpist Ashley Jackson entitled stillness echoing, a new work for the String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC), cavernous echoes of expanding brightness, a harp concerto for Anne-Sophie Bertrand. His new CD of recent concerti, entitled “echoing depths” has just been released on Albany Records (TROY 1948). He has presented masterclasses at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY and Levine Music in Washington, D.C. His music has been featured at the June in Buffalo Festival, Kneisel Hall, Tanglewood, the Cheltenham Festival (Manchester, UK), the Aava Festival in Finland and the HIMA Festival US in Lakeside, OH. His work was also selected for a workshop at the Marlboro Festival.Mumford has taught at the Washington Conservatory of Music, served as Artist-in-Residence at Bowling Green State University, and served as assistant professor of composition and Composer-in-Residence at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. He is currently Distinguished Professor at Lorain County Community College in Northern Ohio. Mr. Mumford is published by Theodore Presser Co. and Quicklight Music and represented by Black Tea Music.