David Froom

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Froom after a performance of his Fantasy Dances by the 21st Century Consort at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2015.

David Froom is an American composer and college professor. His music has been described as “intensely dramatic yet deeply formal,”[1] "intellectually engaging, explosive with imagination and with a satisfying visceral power,"[2] balancing “diatonic pastoralism with acerbic angularity, Stravinskian rhythmic urgency with lyrical counterpoint.”[3] Among his most critically acclaimed works are "Circling,"[4] Sonata for Solo Violin,[5] 2nd Piano Trio,[6] and Amichai Songs.[7] Among his most frequently performed music is his saxophone music, which includes a saxophone quartet, "Flying High" for solo alto saxophone, "Turn of Events" for alto saxophone and piano, "Arirang Variations" for alto saxophone, bassoon, and piano, and "Before the Dawn" for alto saxophone and piano. He has also arranged his flute/clarinet duet, "Circling" for two saxophones. These, and all of his works, are published by the American Composers Alliance.[8] Froom has taught at the University of Utah, the Peabody Institute and the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been on the faculty at St. Mary's College of Maryland since 1989. He has received awards and honors from the Guggenheim Foundation,[9] the American Academy of Arts and Letters, (the Charles Ives Scholarship,[10] the Academy Award[11]), the Fromm Foundation at Harvard,[12] the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress,[13] the Barlow Foundation,[14] and is a five-time recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the State of Maryland.[8]

Early life

Froom was born in 1951 in California. After playing rock music in a band with guitarist Gary Pihl and his brother Mitchell Froom, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley. As a graduate student, he studied under William Kraft, Humphrey Searle and Robert Linn at the University of Southern California, earning a Master of Music Composition degree in 1978. In 1984, he earned a D.M.A. degree in Composition from the Columbia University, where he studied with Mario Davidovsky and Chou Wen-chung. He studied also with Alexander Goehr at Cambridge University on a Fulbright grant. [15]

Composer

Froom has written music for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra, with and without voice. His compositions have been widely performed throughout the United States and Canada, as well as England, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Cyprus, China, New Zealand, and Australia.[15]

Froom's work has, since 1991, appeared regularly on the concerts of the 21st Century Consort, the new music group-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution. They have premiered and recorded many of his works.[16]

Awards

Froom's awards[8] include the following:

Selected works

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Orchestral works

  • Amichai Songs for baritone with orchestra
  • Striking Silver for orchestra
  • Down to a Sunless Sea: a Rhapsody for string orchestra

Concerti

  • Petali di Gelsomino for flute and string orchestra
  • Serenade for trumpet and strings
  • Songs of a Summer Evening for violin, viola and orchestra

Chamber music

  • Before the Dawn for alto saxophone and piano
  • Nightsongs for clarinet and piano
  • Turn of Events for saxophone and piano
  • Lightscapes for flute and piano
  • Circling for flute and clarinet (also arranged for two saxophones)
  • Piano Trio No. 1
  • Piano Trio No. 2 Borders
  • Saxophone Quartet
  • Arirang Variations for alto saxophone, bassoon, piano
  • Trio for Clarinet, Cello, Piano
  • Fantasy Dances for fl, cl, perc, pno, vn, va, vc
  • Kick Off! for brass septet
  • Quintet for oboe, strings and piano
  • Chamber Concerto for fl, cl, vn, vc, pno and perc
  • Quartet for piano and strings
  • String Quartet

Solo instrument

  • Shades of Red for solo violin, or viola, or cello
  • Sonata for solo violin
  • Flying High for solo alto saxophone
  • Piano Suite
  • To Dance to the Whistling Wind for solo flute
  • Sonata for piano
  • Elegy for viola solo

Vocal music

  • Amichai Songs for baritone with orchestra
  • Two Yeats Songs for soprano and violin
  • Colors passing through us for mez sop, cl, vc, pno
  • Three Love Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano
  • Amichai Songs for bar with fl, cl, hn, pno, vn, va, vc
  • Emerson Songs for sop with fl, ob, cl, bn, pno, vn, va, vc

Recordings

  • Quartet for Piano and Strings, Down to a Sunless Sea, Piano Sonata (Centaur Records CRC 2103).[18]
  • Serenade for trumpet and strings, Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony with Jeff Silberschlag, trumpet (Naxos 8.559719).[19]
  • Chamber Concerto (New York New Music Ensemble), String Quartet (Ciompi String Quartet), Quintet for Oboe, Strings and Piano (Twentieth Century Consort), Piano Suite (Eliza Garth). To Dance to the Whistling Wind (Jayn Rosenfeld) (Arabesque Recordings Z6710)[20]
  • “Kick Off!” for brass septet (Sonora Recordings SO22591CD)[21]
  • Piano Trio, Opus 3 Trio (Opus 3 Recordings)[22]
  • Saxophone Quartet, West Point Saxophone Quartet (Altissimo Recordings 75442259912)[23]
  • Saxophone Quartet, Aurelia Quartet (New Dynamic Records 700261228655)[24]
  • Saxophone Quartet, Quatour Nota Bene (Fidelio Recordings AD001)[25]
  • Piano Trio #2: “Grenzen,” Haydn Trio Eisenstadt (Capriccio Records CAP71095)[26]
  • Arirang Variations, Kenneth Tse, Benjamin Coehlo, Alan Huckleberry (Crystal Records CD358)[27]
  • Amichai Songs, Fantasy Dances, Circling, Emerson Songs, Clarinet Trio, 21st Century Consort (Bridge Records 9240)[28]
  • Sonata for Violin Solo, Curtis Macomber (Navonna Records NV5830)[29]

Bibliography

  • "David Froom" by Perry Goldstein, in The Groves Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., 2013
  • “Trusting the Connections” by Alexandra Gardner, Spotlight Profile in New Music Box, April 18, 2012[30]
  • “A stylistic analysis of three flute pieces by David Froom: Circling for flute and clarinet, To Dance to the Whistling Wind for solo flute, and Lightscapes for flute and piano” by Candice Behrmann, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, DMA dissertation, 2010[31]
  • “Flute and Clarinet Together” by Joanna Cowan White in Flute Talk, September 2009[32]
  • “David Froom: MTNA/Shepherd Distinguished Composer 2006” by Ann Rivers Witherspoon in American Music Teacher, June–July, 2007[33]
  • “David Froom” by Perry Goldstein, in Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., 2001

Articles by David Froom

  • David Froom, "The Emerging Generation," keynote article in Contemporary Music Review, Volume 10, Part 1.[34]
  • David Froom, “Looking Back, Looking Forward,” and “Composed in Southern Maryland,” River Gazette, volume 10, no. 3, Fall 2010[35]
  • David Froom, “Classical Music to Unite a Community” New Music Box, July 20, 2011[36]

External links

References

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