The Bushnell Center will host The Hartt Orchestra on March 2 at 8 p.m. Courtesy of hartford.com
The Hartt School orchestra under Edward Cumming will be returning to the Bushnell on Saturday, March 2 at 8 p.m. for a concert. Music will include that of Sharlat, Mozart, Beethoven and the Barber ending with an 1812 Tchaikovsky Overture.
The concert will take place at the Maxwell M. & Ruth R Belding Theater at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. Student tickets are $10 with a valid student ID. Admission for adults is $35 for orchestra seating, and $25 for mezzanine and box seating. There is a $5 discount for seniors and a 10 percent discount for groups of 20 or more. The Bushnell Center for Performing Arts is located at 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford, CT. Contact 860.987.600 or visit bushnell.org for tickets.
As the Director of Orchestral Activities and Associate Professor of Music at the Hartt School, Edward Cumming for the past nine years has been the Music Director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.
Cumming enjoyed working with young musicians. Before he came to Hartford, he was the Resident Conductor of the Pittsburg Symphony, and he served as Music Director of the nationally acclaimed Pittsburg Youth Symphony Orchestra. They were one of the five orchestras invited to the biennial National Youth Orchestra Festival in 1998 and 2002.
From the 1993 to 1996, Cumming was the founding music Director of the Pacific Symphony Institute as a resident at California State University. As Resident Conductor of the Florida Orchestra in Tampa, he was the Assistant Professor of Music at the University of South Florida.
While in Europe,Cumming led the La Orquestra Ciudad de Granada (Spain), the South Bohemian State Orchestra in the Czech Republic, the BBC Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the Sinfonica di Roma. During his stay in Asia, he conducted the Singapore Symphony and most recently made his Israile debut with Be’er Sheva Sinfonieta. His South American debut was in 2010 with the Orquestra Filarmónica de Bogotá conduction Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande. In the U.S. he conducted the Philharmonic Orchestras of LA, and Rochester and Buffalo. Along with those, he also conducted San Diego, Oregon, San Antonio, Santa Barbara and Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s.
Cumming studied with Otto-Werner Mueller at Yale University where in 1992, he received his Doctorate in Music. Also, as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley he was awarded the Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement in the Arts. In May of 2010, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Trinity College.