Description
Travel across the ages sampling music of multiple styles and countries, while exploring its inner workings. Dan Cummings is a composer and pianist who has written film scores, concertos, songs and song cycles, and over one hundred arrangements of hymns and folk songs. Cummings’ depth and breadth of knowledge empowers the exploration of music’s ability to cross cultural boundaries and helps one gain a deeper understanding of our own humanity as experienced through the musical arts.
Daniel Cummings is a composer and pianist based in Albuquerque. His music has been performed across the US and Canada, and his most recent premieres have been his setting of Tennyson’s Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal and The Nativity. He is currently writing music for a Los Angeles-based film company. Cummings also serves as the choir director and piano instructor at Manzano High School and as the organist and pianist at Central United Methodist Church.