David Froom

David Froom

David Froom

(This composer has multiple commissions - click here to view all)

Title: Amichai Songs
Commission: 2004
Completed: 2006
Instrumentation: baritone with chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian Art Museum, Washington, DC
Premiere Ensemble: 21st Century Consort
Notes: Dedicated to Christopher Kendall and the 21st Century Consort.

Title: Going to Town
Commission: 1995
Completed: 1997
Instrumentation: wind ensemble
Premiere Location: The University of Louisville School of Music
Premiere Ensemble: The Louisville Orchestra
Notes: Dedicated to the Fromm Foundation.

David Froom was born in California in 1951. His music has been performed extensively throughout the United States by major orchestras, ensembles, and soloists, including, among many others, the Louisville, Seattle, Utah, League/ISCM, and Chesapeake Symphony Orchestras, the United States Marine and Navy Bands, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the 21st Century Consort, Boston Musica Viva, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt, and the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet. His music has been heard in performance in England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Holland, Cyprus, China, Australia, and New Zealand. His music is available on CD on the Bridge, Navona, New Dimensions, Naxos, Arabesque, Capriccio, Centaur, Sonora, Crystal, Opus 3, and Altissimo labels, and is published by American Composers Edition.

Among the many organizations that have bestowed honors on him are the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Academy Award, Ives Scholarship), the Guggenheim, Fromm, Koussevitzky, and Barlow Foundations, the Kennedy Center (first prize in the Friedheim Awards), the National Endowment for the Arts, the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer for 2006), and the state of Maryland (five Individual Artist Awards). He had a Fulbright grant for study at Cambridge University, and fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Wellesley Composers Conference, and the MacDowell Colony. His biography is included in both Groves and the American Groves. He serves on the boards of directors for the American Composers Alliance, the 21st Century Consort, and the New York New Music Ensemble. He has taught at the University of Utah, the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Maryland-College Park, and, since 1989, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Mr. Froom was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Southern California, and Columbia University. His main composition teachers were Chou Wen-chung, Mario Davidovsky, Alexander Goehr, and William Kraft.

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