Featured Works
Before the Dawn
Alto saxophone and piano
7 minutes
Commissioned by Kenneth Tse
Flying High
Alto saxophone solo
5-½ minutes
Commissioned by Lois Hicks-Wozniak
Arirang Variations
Alto saxophone, bassoon, piano
10 minutes
Commissioned by the
Barlow Foundation
for Kenneth Tse
Turn of Events
Alto saxophone and piano
15 minutes
Commissioned and premiered by Brian Utley
Hidden Motives
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
11 minutes
Written for the 21st Century Consort
Recordings
Sonata for Solo Violin
Harmonious Dissonance: String Chamber Works
Curtis Macomber, violin
Navona NV5830
Haydn Trio Eisenstadt
Writing against war: music inspired by poetry of Ingeborg Bachman
Piano Trio # 2, “Grenzen”
Capriccio CAP71095 (SACD)
David Froom: Solo & Chamber Music
Chamber Concerto, Piano Suite, Oboe Quintet, To Dance to the Whistling Wind, and String Quartet
New York New Music Ensemble, with Robert Black, conductor
21st Century Consort, with Christopher Kendall, conductor
Ciompi String Quartet
Jayn Rosenfeld, flute; Eliza Garth, piano
Arabesque Z6710
Piano Quartet, Piano Sonata, and Down to a Sunless Sea
Cyrus Stevens and Linda Quan, violins;
Lois Martin, viola;
Michael Rudiakov, cello;
Donald Palma, bass
Eliza Garth, piano
Centaur CRC2103
David Froom: Song and Dance
Amichai Songs, Emerson Songs, Fantasy Dances, Circling, and Clarinet Trio
21st Century Consort
Christopher Kendall conductor
Christine Schadeberg, soprano
William Sharp, baritone
Bridge 9240
Reviews
“The most striking was David Froom’s Sonata for Violin Solo (2003), movements that segue between episodes of lacy elegance, lurching violence and wistful lyricism, until a furious, rhythmically unbounded, toccatalike finale.”
New York Times
“But the ideas flew faster and more furiously in David Froom’s Piano Trio No. 2, “Grenzen” (Borders). The piece is a delight — intellectually engaging, explosive with imagination and with a satisfying visceral power.”
The Washington Post
“First off Tuesday was a Piano Quartet by David Froom that spoke out with musical ideas of substance, feeling and character. An arresting cello theme launched the piece with urgency. From then on, through four movements, Froom’s music took on its materials cogently and fresh, with a persistently renewing rhythmic impetus. There is a warmly expressive slow movement, a potent Scherzo and a slow last movement readdressing what has gone before in a satisfying reflection. The writing for the piano, violin, viola and cello was imaginative and sounded new but unforced. This is a work to live with and savor again.”
The San Francisco Chronicle
“The sound-world of David Froom is rich and varied. The interval content of the pieces on the Arabesque disc leans towards more consonant intervals but is free from more than fleeting references to tonal centers. This music is colorful, rhythmically alive, and contains a wealth of satisfying and expressive melodies.”
American Record Guide