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First name: David
Last name: Froom
Dates: 1951
Category: Quartet
Nationality: American
Opus name: Quartett for piano and strings (1985)
Publisher: ACA
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Information: http://davidfroom.com Web Site: David Froom web site David Froom was born in California in 1951. His music has been performed extensively throughout the United States by major orchestras, ensembles, and soloists. His music is available on CD on the Bridge, New Dimensions, Delos, Arabesque, Capriccio, Centaur, Sonora, Crystal, Opus 3, and West Point Academy labels. His music is published by American Composers Edition (the imprint of the American Composers Alliance). Among the many organizations that have bestowed honors on him are the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Academy Award, Ives Scholarship) and others. His biography is included in Groves. 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. He has taught at the University of Utah, the Peabody Conservatory, and, since 1989, St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he is professor and chair of 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.