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David Froom department chair professor of music theory and composition
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photography by Bruno Murialdo
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| David Froom
was born in California in 1951. His music has been performed throughout
the United States by numerous ensembles, including the Louisville,
Seattle, Utah, and Chesapeake Symphony Orchestras, The United States Navy Band, Speculum Musicae, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the
Ciompi String Quartet, the Twentieth Century Consort, Canyonlands, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Music Today, the
Aurelia, Red Stick, American, THiBRe, Excelsior, and Nota Bene Saxophone
Quartets, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Washington Square
Contemporary Music Society, Dinosaur Annex, the Network for New Music, the
Empyrean Ensemble, the League of Composers/ISCM, Earplay, the Contemporary
Music Forum, and the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore; he also has had
recent performances in China, England, France, Germany, Italy, and Holland. His
music is available on CD on the Delos, Arabesque, Centaur, Sonora, Crystal, Opus 3, and West Point Academy
labels, and much of it is published by MMB Music, Inc.
Among the many honors he has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship, commissions from the Fromm, Koussevitzky, and Barlow Foundations, first prize in the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, four Individual Artist Awards from the state of Maryland, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fulbright grant for study at Cambridge University, and fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Wellesley Composers Conference, and the MacDowell Colony. He has served on the National Advisory Board for the League of Composers/ISCM and on the board of directors for the New York New Music Ensemble. He has taught at Baruch College, the University of Utah, the Peabody Conservatory, and, since 1989, St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he is professor in the music department. 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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