Cummins, Cenovia

She is a musician who performs on piano but mainly concentrates on her career as a violinist. She attended the Taos School of Music in 1982 and went on to become the concertmaster of Eos, the Naumberg Orchestra, the New York Pops, the Riverside Symphony, the Roanoke Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet and the School of American Ballet. Other groups with whom she has worked include the American Ballet Orchestra, the MusicArts Ensemble, and the New York City Ballet.

In September 1995, she participated in the Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival. The event included a recital on 9^th September 1995 consisting of Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Piano Trio in C major”, Jacques Ibert’s “Trois Pieces Breves”, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Ch’io mi scordi di te?, K. 505” and “Duo for Violin and Viola in G major”. On 16^th September 1995, the program comprised Anton Arensky’s “Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 32”, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Gamba Sonata”, Seymour Barab’s “Airs and Fancies”, and Johann Friedrich Fasch’s “Quartet in B flat”. Cenovia and pianist Marian Hahn, flautist Clare Hoffman and cellist Jeffrey Sotaw interpreted Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ghost Trio” and Mozart’s “Violin Sonata” on 21^st September 1996.

In September 1997 and 2000, she took part in the Moab Music Festival. She and pianist Paul Hersh and cellist Dorothy Lawson played Felix Mendelssohn’s “Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49” on 12^th September 1997. On 9^th September 2000, she played violin in a performance of “The Creation of the World” by Darius Milhaud.

She gave Keith Lay’s “On the Playground: Violin Concerto for Strings” an airing in Polk Auditorium at Fordham University on 10^th September 2002. On 5^th November 2004, she reprised the concerto at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center.

She and violinist Varty Manoulian, cellists Rupert Thompson and Brooks Whitehouse, and violist Kate Vincent teamed up for Alexander Glazunov’s “Cello Quintet in A major, Op. 30” on 17^th August 2010 at Apple Hill in Nelson, New Hampshire.

On 30^th September 2010, she played electric violin in the New York City Ballet’s performance of “Red Angels” by the choreographer Ulysses Dove and the composer Richard Einhorn at New York City Center.

She was back on Apple Hill with fellow violinists Elise Kuder, Ralph Morrison and Movses Pogossian on 5^th July 2010 for a performance of Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Concerto for Four Violins”.

On 16^th October 2011, the MusicArts Ensemble gathered at Pleasantville Presbyterian Church for a recital of Antonin Dvorak’s “Piano Trio in B flat”.

She and pianist Daniel Kirk-Foster interpreted Marcel Dupre’s “Sonate pour Violon et piano, Op. 5” at Brick Presbyterian Church on 19^th February 2012.

In addition to a full slate of live chamber performances, Cenovia has an impressive roll of Broadway, film and recording credits.

She has been in the orchestra pit for productions of Beauty and the Beast, Big River, Bonnie and Clyde, City of Angels, Cry-Baby, Fiddler on the Roof, Follies, Ghost the Musical, Guys and Dolls, Lestat, Oklahoma!, Ragtime, and Thou Shalt Not. In Green Day’s American Idiot, she wasn’t in the orchestra pit, but thirty feet above the stage in go-go boots.

She has released her own recording as a pianist entitled Solo Piano.

Other recordings on which she appears include: At the Movies by Dave Koz; The Celtic Minstrel by James Galway; C’mon C’mon by Sheryl Crow; Duras/Dochamp by John Zorn; Echoes of Christmas with Richard Cummins; Four of a Kind: A Family Affair with Richard, Rita & Stephanie Cummins; A Girl Like Me by Rhianna; Heaven & Hell by Joe Jackson; Livin’ La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin; A Long and Winding Road by Maureen McGovern; North by Elvis Costello; October Road by James Taylor; Our Kind of Soul by Daryl Hall & John Oates; Paganini: After a Dream by Regina Carter; So Damn Happy by Aretha Franklin; Songs I Heard by Harry Connick, Jr.; The Spice of Life by Earl Klugh; and, Swingtime by the Canadian Brass.

She can also be heard on the soundtracks of Julie & Julia, Light is Calling, Lovely & Amazing, The Mudge Boy, and Practical Magic.

In the field of music education, she has served on the faculty of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music.

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