Latitude 45 welcomes Jeffrey Mumford!

We are delighted to announce that renowned American composer Jeffrey Mumford has joined the Latitude 45 Arts roster!

Jeffrey Mumford’s works have been commissioned and performed extensively, by major orchestras, soloists, and ensembles, both in the United States and abroad, including London, Paris, Reykjavik, Vienna, The Hague, Canada, Russia, Lithuania and Latvia. He has received numerous fellowships, grants, awards and commissions, including 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. Mumford's most notable commissions include those from the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music, the Chiarina Chamber Players, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, and major symphony orchestras.

Current projects include resonant layers of floating light, a new work premiered by the String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC) last November, cavernous echoes of expanding brightness, a harp concerto for Anne-Sophie Bertrand, to be presented at the One Harp World Congress in Toronto in July 2026, and floating layers interwoven in expanding brightness, a double concerto for violin & cello for Lauren Cauley and Mariel Roberts respectively, to be premiered in February 2026 by the Columbus Symphony. His new CD of recent concerti, entitled “echoing depths” has recently been released on Albany Records / Parma Recordings (TROY 1948).

Welcome Jeffrey! We look forward to the many musical journeys ahead.

📍 Learn more about Jeffrey Mumford and explore his profile: https://www.latitude45arts.com/jeffrey-mumford