Frederick Frahm, American composer, organist, publisher and parish musician was born in California, USA, in 1964. Frahm has directed church music programs across the US, 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 counterpoint, music theory & composition, and orchestration; and for the last six years has participated as a teaching artist, resident composer and accompanist for the Santa Fe Opera’s Active Learning Through Opera program. He is a founding director and creative partner of Firehead Editions of London.

A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA) where he earned degrees in Church Music (BM) and Organ Performance (MM), he studied organ and counterpoint with David Dahl and Gregory Peterson; composition with Roger Briggs and Gregory Youtz; and conducting with Richard Sparks. A prolific composer, 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. Frahm is represented by a dozen publishers in the US and Europe with more than 300 works in print.

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