Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 8, 1995                   TAG: 9501070040
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NAME: STEPHANIE CUMMINS:

OCCUPATION: Cellist. Plays with the New Jersey Symphony and at Broadway shows and does other free-lance work. Backed up Barbra Streisand last summer at Madison Square Garden.

LIVES IN: North Bergen, N.J.

MARRIED: To cellist Evan Richey.

CHILDREN: None.

HOMETOWN: Roanoke.

PARENTS: Richard and Rita Cummins, Roanoke.

EDUCATION: Patrick Henry High School, North Carolina School of the Arts, Juilliard School.

ARRIVED IN NEW YORK: 1984.

REASON: To attend Juilliard. Later played for a year full-time with the symphony in Roanoke before returning in 1988 to play with the New Jersey Symphony.

A NEW YORK HIGH POINT: Played week long gig with Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts at the Blue Note, in 1992.

QUOTE: "My personal feeling is it's no picnic living here."