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

DATE: SUNDAY, January 8, 1995                   TAG: 9501070041
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 6   EDITION: METRO 
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NAME: CENOVIA CUMMINS.

OCCUPATION: Violinist. Is a substitute in the New Jersey Symphony, and also plays on Broadway, in commercials and films, in a rock band (Needles) and is concertmaster of New York's Riverside Symphony. Plays on a recent album of opera music written by Carly Simon.

LIVES IN: North Bergen, N.J., across the street from a park. "This is almost like living in Roanoke," she says.

"Well, not quite," says her sister, Stephanie, who lives upstairs.

MARRIED: No.

HOMETOWN: Roanoke

PARENTS: Richard and Rita Cummins, Roanoke.

EDUCATION: Patrick Henry High School, North Carolina School of The Arts, Mannes College of Music.

ARRIVED IN NEW YORK: 1984.

REASON CAME: To attend Mannes College of Music.

DREAMS OF SOMEDAY OWNING: "I want a guitar store and a little restaurant, with live music."

QUOTE: "I'm really happy, because I can do so many different things" in New York.