Featured Composer: Howard Frazin
March 16 and 18, 2007

Howard Frazin lives in Cambridge, where he has taught composition at the Longy School of Music since 1991 and is currently President of Composers in Red Sneakers. His music has been performed throughout the US, Canada, France, and Russia.

After graduating from the University of Michigan Honors College, Mr. Frazin began his formal music training at the New England Conservatory of Music and later received an M.A. in Composition from the University of Minnesota where he studied with Dominick Argento. His composition, The Voice of Isaac, an oratorio commissioned by PALS Children’s Chorus, was premiered at Jordan Hall in March 2003 when it was hailed by the Boston Globe as “...clear in design and Brittenesque in texture...ingeniously scored...(having an) almost unbearable poignancy.”

Howard Frazin has received composition grants from the Dr. Scholl Foundation, Composers Forum of New York, and the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, among others. Vocal music collaborations have included works for Kendra Colton, William Hite, Robert Honeysucker, Jayne West, and Elizabeth Anker. Chamber music collaborations have included works for violinist Valeria Kuchment, pianist Sally Pinkas, flutist Fenwick Smith and the chamber ensembles Janus 21, the Arden String Quartet, Vento Chiaro, and Commonwealth Brass, among others. Among his orchestral pieces, Mr. Frazin's “Amid a Crowd of Stars” was recognized by the Boston Globe as one of Boston's best new works in 1993.

Eli Newberger and Mike Roylance will perform the world premiere of Howard Frazin’s “Theme & Reverberations for Two Tubas and Orchestra” on March 16 & 18, 2007.

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