Frederick Frahm

Frederick Frahm was born in 1964, in Hemet, California, USA. His catalog of compositions includes works for organ, chorus, numerous art songs and song cycles, three large scale cantatas: From East to West, Angel Vision, and Grant Us Untroubled Rest, chamber music, a violin concerto, and a chamber opera, The Death of Isaiah Robb. The composer’s manuscripts, sketches, and correspondence are archived in the Mortvedt Library at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA.

He is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University (BM in Church Music and MM in Organ Performance), where he studied organ and counterpoint with David Dahl, Gregory Peterson, and Randall McCarty. He studied composition with Gregory Youtz (PLU), Gary Smart (University of Wyoming), Walter Pelz (Concordia University, River Forest), and Roger Briggs (Western Washington University). Frahm is currently Director of Music at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Albuquerque, NM, USA. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member at Concordia University (River Forest, IL) where he taught modal counterpoint, music theory and composition, and orchestration.

Publishers currently representing the music of Frederick Frahm are: Augsburg Publishing House, Cantica-Nova Publications, Concordia Publishing House, Live Oak House, Wayne Leupold Editions, Zimbel Press, Musik Fabrik (Paris), Capstone Records, and Wergo Schalplatten. Mr Frahm is a member of ASCAP and has been a Standards Award winner since 2001. Frederick Frahm’s liturgical music for organ, as published by Augsburg Fortress Press, is largely chorale tune based and can be found in 2 volumes of improvisations: Faith Alive, and Faith Alive II, as well as in several anthologies. Frahm’s concert works for organ: Tse Bi dahi (ShipRock), the Nooksack River Psalms, and the Fantasy for Organ are published by Musik Fabrik (Paris). Additional unpublished music for organ, free works and chorale preludes, are available through the composer’s website at www.frederickfrahm.com.

Fantasy for organ (2004) and Tse Bi dahi (Shiprock) (2006) were performed during the 2007 AFNOM festival in London.

Contact information

Website: www.frederickfrahm.com