2025 Commissioned Composers
Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard Announces 2025 Commissions
The Board of Directors of the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University is pleased to announce the names of twelve composers selected to receive 2025 Fromm commissions. These commissions represent one of the principal ways that the Fromm Music Foundation seeks to strengthen composition and to bring contemporary concert music closer to the public. In addition to the commissioning award, a subsidy is available for the ensemble performing the premiere of the commissioned work.
Eve Beglarian
According to the Los Angeles Times , composer and performer Eve Beglarian is a “humane, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist.” A 2023 winner of the Arts and Letters Award for “a spectacular body of work that innovates and takes enormous risks,” she...
Mahir Cetiz
The music of Mahir Cetiz is often characterized as atmospheric and deeply expressive, shaped by slow-unfolding forms, careful pacing, and immersive sound worlds that engage with memory, history, and continuity. Cetiz is an American-Turkish composer based...
Marti Epstein
Title: Barcarolle for String Trio Commission: 1998 Completed: 1999 Instrumentation: violin, viola, and cello Premiere Location: First and Second Church of Boston Premiere Ensemble: Adaskin String Trio Notes: In memory of Earl Kim. Marti Epstein is a...
Heather Frasch
Heather Frasch is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic concert music, improviser, performer-composer (flute, laptop/electronics & sonic creations), collaborator and creator of interactive sound installations and DIY instruments. Her work brings...
Robert Honstein
Celebrated for his “waves of colorful sounds” (New York Times) and “smart, appealing works” (The New Yorker), Robert Honstein (b. 1980) is a New York-based composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and film music. Ensembles and performers that have...
Rudresh Mahanthappa
Alto saxophonist, composer and educator Rudresh Mahanthappa is widely known as one of the premier voices in jazz of the 21st century. He has over 15 albums to his credit, including the acclaimed Bird Calls , which topped many critics’ best-of-year lists...
Paul Novak
The "spellbinding" (Washington Post) music of Chicago-based composer Paul Novak immerses listeners in shimmering and subtly crafted musical worlds full of color, motion, light, and magic. His recent projects engage with dreams and memory, queer identity...
João Pedro Oliveira
Composer João Pedro Oliveira holds the Corwin Endowed Chair in Composition for the University of California at Santa Barbara. He completed a Ph.D. in Music at the University of New York at Stony Brook. His music includes opera, orchestral compositions...
Celeste Oram
Celeste Oram is a composer & musician who grew up in Aotearoa New Zealand and now lives in New York City. Encompassing instrumental & orchestral music, song & speech, electronics, theatre, and improvisation, Celeste's works are scenarios in which music...
Timothy Page
Chicago-born composer, musician, and performance artist Timothy Page creates works that revolve around play with style and context, body, physical materials, and space. Page holds degrees from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, where he...
Zeena Parkins
Electro-acoustic composer/performer/improviser and pioneer of experimental harp practice, Zeena Parkins re-imagines both the acoustic harp and an evolution of her original electric ones, using expanded playing techniques, object preparations, and custom...
Sara Serpa
Sara Serpa is a Portuguese vocalist and composer whose music defies convention, blending jazz, chamber music, and experimental sound into a singular, emotionally resonant voice. Known for her pure tone, wordless singing, and fearless improvisation, Serpa...
