Amadi Hummings has been heard in recital in major cities throughout the United States, such as New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Houston, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., including a duo recital with violinist Pierre D’Archambeau at Weill Recital Hall under the auspices of Four Seasons Concerts. In recent seasons, Mr. Hummings has been a guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He has also appeared in recital at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, on the "Discovery" recital series in La Jolla, as a guest artist at the International Viola Congress, and at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has performed in Israel, Canada, South America, Central America, India, Japan, and throughout the Caribbean, and has collaborated with such artists as Awadagin Pratt, Mitsuko Uchida, Andras Schiff, Nobuko Imai, David Soyer, and Felix Galimir.

As a concerto soloist, Mr. Hummings has appeared with the North Carolina Symphony, the Winston-Salem Symphony, the Salisbury Symphony, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, the City Island Baroque Ensemble of New York, the National Symphony of Ecuador, and at the Costa Rica International Music Festival. He has also performed at the Yachats, Marlboro, Sarasota, Tanglewood, Aspen, Norfolk, and San Juan Festivals, the El Paso International Chamber Music Festival, the Salt Bay Chamber Festival in Maine, as well as the Prussia Cove festival in England. Mr. Hummings' performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio's "Performance Today", "St. Paul Sunday", on WNYC in New York, WGBH in Boston, and WFMT in Chicago, along with television appearances in Israel and South America. Among Mr. Hummings' prizes awards are those from the New York Philharmonic, Concert Artists Guild, the North Carolina Symphony, the National Society of Arts and Letters, and the Epstein Young Artists Award from the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, with whom he still maintains a strong artistic and mentoring association.

In recent seasons, Mr. Hummings has appeared as guest artist with the Chester String Quartet, and as soloist in Penderecki’s Viola Concerto with the North Carolina Symphony. He also continued his activities as a member of the Concertante Chamber Players and as a member of Innuendo, a group comprised of members of the Boston and Pittsburgh symphonies, and conductor/pianist Keith Lockhart. He served as principal violist of the Jerusalem International Symphony Orchestra for the 2000 Winter Festival, on the faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Session, the Brevard Music Center, the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, the Sierra Music Festival, and the Aria International Summer Academy in London, Ontario. He also made appearances as soloist with the Virginia Symphony, in recital for the Hong Kong Chamber Music Society, Hong Kong University, and gave a master class at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. He also appeared with the Harrington, Corigliano, and St. Lawrence Quartets.

Mr. Hummings is the Director of Program Development for the Gateways Music Festival, and is the Founder and Music Director of the Harlem Symphony Orchestra which performs regularly in New York City. From 1994-2000, Mr. Hummings was on the faculty of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where he taught violin and viola, and conducted the Old Dominion University Chamber Orchestra.

A native of New York City, Amadi Hummings was born in 1969. After early studies with his mother, pianist Armenta Adams, he began his formal training at the North Carolina School of the Arts as a student of Sally Peck. He continued his studies at the New England Conservatory with Marcus Thompson. Mr. Hummings was awarded the Performer's Certificate from Indiana University, where he served as an Associate Instructor, and  his Master's degree in 1994 as a student of Atar Arad.

 

 

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