Frederick Frahm
Frederick Frahm, American composer, organist, publisher, and parish musician was born in California, USA, in 1964. He is a founding co-director of Firehead Organ Works. He recently served as a Production Editor in the music department at Augsburg Fortress in Minneapolis.
A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA) where he earned degrees in Church Music (BM) and Organ Performance (MM), he studied organ, improvisation, and counterpoint with David Dahl and Gregory Peterson; composition with Roger Briggs and Gregory Youtz; and conducting with Richard Sparks.
Frahm has directed church music programs across the US since he was 16 years old. He contributed as a classical music critic to the Bellingham Herald in Bellingham, WA, served as an adjunct faculty member of Concordia University in River Forest, IL, where he taught 16th century counterpoint, music theory & composition, and orchestration.
From 2011 to 2022, Frahm served as a collaborative teaching artist, resident composer, and accompanist for the Santa Fe Opera Company LifeSongs & Active Learning Through Opera (ALTO) programs.
A prolific composer of more than 900 works, his catalog of compositions includes works for organ, choral music, chamber pieces, art song and song cycle, symphony and concerto, and extended vocal works including operas and cantatas. His music is well documented in recordings on Youtube and is widely performed in the US and Europe.
Solo works by Frederick Frahm
All Saints Abstract
Another Day Awakes
Before the End of Light
Canticle Meditation
Daffodils, Being the Poetry of Christ
Embroidering the Terrestrial Mantle
Epiphany Abstract
Everything Fades Into Mist
Flower in a Valley
Flowers in the Wood
Fount of Life
Four Parts
Great Age, Behold Us
Holy Cross Abstract
How Noble the World is
Oracion de San Agustin
Paisaje
Pentecost Abstract
Persian Lilac
Vinea mea Electa
Voluntary in Blue
Voluntary in Red
Multi-movement works
All my heart this night rejoices
In Winter Woods
Magdalena Sketches
Three Pieces (after Odilon Redon)
Tres Santos
Two Psalm Preludes
Chorale Preludes, Partitas, and Fantasies
Auf, Auf, Mein Herz
ChoraleBook
- Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
- Christum wir loben sollen schon
- Mit Fried’ und Freud’ ich far dahin
- Der am Kreuz
- Jesus, meine Zuversicht
Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn
-Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
-Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her
-Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn
-Seelenbräutigam
-Jesus, meine Zuversicht
Nun komm, der heiden Heiland (II)
Nun komm, der heiden Heiland (III)
O Heiland reiss die Himmel auf
Urbs beata Ierusalem
Veni Emmanuel
Chamber music
Abó Chapel—organ & bells
At the Desert's Edge—organ & bells
Augustine and the Seashell—organ & strings
Grendel's Soliloquy—organ & violin
Good News of Great Joy—organ & bells
Icarus—organ, oboe & bassoon
Mysterium Fidei—organ & bells
O Night—organ & flute
Quarai Chapel—organ & strings
Reverie—organ & horn
Septem Verba—organ & violin
The Baptism of Christ—organ & bells
The Spirit Intercedes for Us—organ & bells
This is the Day the Lord has Made—organ & bells
Your People Long to Greet You, O Lord—organ & bells
What the wind said & what the water replied—organ & violin
Major works
Abstracts (10 pieces for the church year)
Calendarmusic (with Huw Morgan)
Collected Works (22 solo works)
Ezra (a cycle for organ in 15 parts)
John the Baptist (oratorio)
Rowan Tree (a cycle of anthems)
