Clarissa Wilhelmina Burton Cumbo (January 15, 1903 – August 20, 1988) was an American musician and arts patron, based in New York and born in the British West Indies.
[3] In 1942, she and her husband joined a committee of "prominent citizens" of Harlem, along with Countee Cullen, Shelton Hale Bishop, and Leathe Colvert Hemachandra, to judge a competition for young singers.
[4] In the 1940s, Cumbo helped to organize the State Orchestra, an interracial ensemble, and the Cosmopolitan Little Symphony,[5] which performed under Everett Lee.
[2] In 1970 she and her husband founded a nonprofit organization, Triad Presentations, nurturing and supporting the work of Black composers and musicians.
[9] They had a son, William Burton Cumbo (1926–1963), who served in the US Navy during World War II.