Cenovia Cummins, Violin

Fast facts

• Concertmaster New York Pops and American Ballet Orchestra
• Violinist for Broadway’s Maybe Happy Ending
• Avid improviser and composer, lifetime of jazz, bluegrass, classical to Broadway

Cenovia Cummins is the concertmaster of The Little Orchestra Society and the School of American Ballet Orchestra.  She served as the concertmaster for the NY Pops for over 13 years and has been guest concertmaster for many orchestras here in the US and Canada.

Cenovia enjoys the rich diversity of musical freelance life. She has held many chairs on Broadway shows including: American Idiot, Carousel (with Renee Fleming), King Lear (Philip Glass and Glenda Jackson) Here We Are (Stephen Sondheim’s last show) and can presently be heard and seen onstage at the new hit musical, Maybe Happy Ending. 

She has recorded, appeared on TV and toured with many of the top stars in the music industry such as Hall and Oates, Carly Simon, Sheryl Crow, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Tony Bennet, Diana Krall, Stevie Wonder, Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears,  Portishead, Joni Mitchell, Chrissie Hynde, Elvis Costello, Cheap Trick, James Taylor, Rod Stewart and many others.

 Her violin solos have been featured in major movie releases, Lovely and Amazing and Julie and Julia. She can be heard weekly in the Masterpiece Theater Mystery series and the CBS Nightly News themes.

Cenovia is an avid improviser and composer. She is the pianist in her jazz quintet  called CC and Friends  She has released an album of her piano improvisations called Solo Piano. Her composition “small suite’’ for cello and violin has been performed frequently in Europe and the USA as well as her Duos for oboe and violin.

Cenovia also plays in a bluegrass band and is the violinist, mandolinist and keyboard player for the band, Ned Farr and the Good Red Road which released their fourth album last spring.