Nneka Cummins is an emerging composer and music producer based in London. They have an electro-acoustic and acoustic practice, with a current focus on colour, percussiveness and organic flowing melodies to form original sound worlds from new sonic combinations and timbral blends.
Nneka was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Artist’s award in 2023.
Nneka was a Sound and Music New Voices Composer 2022/2023 (supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and The Vaughan Williams Foundation) and a non-classical Artist in Residence 2023-2025.
Nneka was a Philharmonia Composer Academy fellow 2022/2023 and their work, 3 Planets premiered at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall in May 2023. The concert recording was released on NMC Recordings in October 2023 and included on NMC's compilation album, NMC at 35 in September 2024.
Nneka was the winner of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s Rushworth Composition Prize 2021. Their piece Metal Tapestry was performed by Ensemble 10/10, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s new music group in the Tung Auditorium in October 2022.
Nneka studied at masters level at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and was awarded The Gareth Neame Scholarship and The Trinity College London Scholarship.
