Tim Cummings, a native of Tennessee, began his musical studies at the age of 6 as a student of the piano. He took up the Highland pipes at age 8, and piping has been his primary musical focus ever since.

Tim has studied composition with Jack Gallagher and Jack Body; he started piping under Al MacRae, and later studied under Sandy Keith, Scott MacAulay, and briefly the faculty at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow. He earned his undergraduate degree in Music Education (The College of Wooster, OH); and both a B.A. Honours degree in Ethnomusicology and an M.A. in Musicology (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand). During the 2002-03 school year, he was the Artist in Residence at The College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts of Canada (Summerside, PEI). In recent years he has taught and performed at the Northeast Heritage Music Camp, Young Tradition VT events, Maine Pipes & Fiddle weekends, the Pipers' Gathering, PEI Fiddle Camp, the Vermont Bellowspipe & Fiddle School, the Upper Potomac Piper's Weekend, and the Champlain Valley Folk Festival.

While living in New Zealand, Tim was a member of the highly competitive Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band, and has arranged much of their repertoire. He now lives in Vermont, where he is a sought-after teacher, workshop-leader, performer, composer/arranger, and publisher of piping and Celtic-related music. On occasion you might also find him piping to moose and bear along the Appalachian Trail.

www.timothycummings.com