Francis Johnson - https://youtu.be/tNtHfBggyhw?si=BThoZrDEj8RmboFD

Harry T. Burleigh - https://youtu.be/w1li1YGIcww?si=cgP6rlAuQO7smd7B

Joseph Bologne – https://youtu.be/vHsEVihv0pg?si=pbmt1As9DiU7047z

Florence Price – https://youtu.be/O65IQkRz3bk?si=FlwrUsJh2kGAQJHA

William Grant Still – https://youtu.be/PYPFUZ8buf8?si=Y1Hgpp7WA9MkWkcI

George Walker – https://youtu.be/tYnEXI3WyRQ?si=X0Ws6c0PXHSCCjj5

Margaret Bonds - https://youtu.be/uivi9UnkRcQ?si=5niIJhEgilYJ8VHK

Charles Lloyd - https://www.charles-lloyd-jr.com/biography

Oscar Peterson - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/oscar-peterson

Errollyn Wallen – https://youtu.be/qoty_6llL_g?si=iPQ438Btb4hNwVnv

Kevin Wayne Bumpers is a concert pianist holding both a bachelor’s and master’s Degree in piano
performance from the University of South Alabama and The Florida State University. He has done
post graduate studies at the University of Miami. His teachers include Mrs. Katie B. Armstrong,
Dr. Edward Daniel, Mr. Leonard Mastrogiacomo, Mr. James Stream and Dr. J.B. Floyd.

He is an award-winning pianist. At the age of 18, He made is concert stage debut performing the
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra conducted by Barry
Douglas. He has won several Piano Competitions including the Tourgee DeBose National Piano
Competition, Omega Psi Phi Talent Hunt, Mobile Music Teachers Scholarship Competition, and
the Florida Music Teachers Association College Competition.

Mr. Bumpers is a full-time tenured faculty member and has been head of the keyboard area at
Miami Dade College Kendall Campus since 1991 at the rank of Full Professor. He was awarded
the prestigious Robert H. McCabe Endowed Teaching Chair in 1999 at Miami Dade College for
his teaching excellence. In 2006 Mr. Bumpers received a Fulbright Scholarship to Ghana, West
Africa to study traditional religious music in their various dialects. He is the founder and director
of the Miami Dade College High School Piano Competition. He is the former choir director of the
award-winning JUBA Gospel Ensemble of Miami Dade College Kendall Campus. His choir
recorded their first compact disc in March 1996 and filmed their first live television concert for
Public Television in May, 1997. They have been featured on the Bobby Jones Gospel Show on the
BET Network and the Spanish Channel Telemundo.

Mr. Bumpers is a composer and arranger. He has written three books of piano solo arrangements
of Popular Hymns and Christmas Hymns and recorded CDs of the tunes as well. He was
commissioned to write two songs for the Miami Children’s Choir and his choral works have been
performed by local and international choirs.

He has shared the performance stage with several national recording artists such as Yolanda
Adams, Shirley Caesar, Mary Mary and Donnie McClurkin. He has entertained such dignitaries as
Alex Haley, Henry Kissinger, Rosa Parks, and Governor George Wallace. He served as the
Religious Music Coordinator for the NAACP National Convention on Miami Beach in 2003.

He is a strong advocate of black composers’ classical music and recently performed with the New
Canon Chamber Ensemble premiering Margaret Bond’s cantata “Simon Bore the Cross.” He is
scheduled to record the recently discovered and newly published piano compositions of African
American composer Florence Beatrice Price.

Mr. Bumpers is a sought after classical and gospel pianist, accompanist, music workshop clinician
and an adjudicator of talent competitions. He maintains a private piano studio in Miami, Florida
and has been a leader in church music ministry for over forty plus years. He presently serves as
Minister of Music at St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church in Opa Locka, Florida. He is married
to Katrina Battle Bumpers, and they have three children, Kevin, Karina and Kami.