David Froom named MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year.

David Froom named MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year. David Froom was awarded the MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer ofthe Year at the 2007 CFMTA-MTNA-RCM Collaborative Conference in Toronto. Froom's music has been performed extensively throughout theUnited States by major orchestras, ensembles and soloists, including,among many others, the Louisville, Seattle, Utah and Chesapeake SymphonyOrchestras, The United States Marine and Navy Bands, the Chamber MusicSociety of Lincoln Center, the Twentieth Century Consort, the New YorkNew Music Ensemble The New York New Music Ensemble is a contemporary chamber music group. The group formed in 1975. Current members include: flutist Jayn Rosenfeld, clarinetist Jean Kopperud, violinist Linda Quan, cellist Chris Finckel, pianist Stephen Gosling and percussionist Daniel Druckman. , violinist Curtis Macomber and saxophonist KennethTse. He also has performed in England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy,Holland, China and Australia. His music is available on CD on the Delos,Arabesque, Capriccio, Centaur, Sonora, Crystal, Opus 3, and West PointAcademy labels, and much of it is published by MMB Music, Inc. Among the many organizations that have bestowed honors on him arethe American Academy of Arts and Letters (Academy Award, IvesScholarship), the Guggenheim, Fromm, Koussevitzky, and BarlowFoundations, the Kennedy Center (first prize in the Friedheim Awards),the National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. , and the state of Maryland (fourIndividual Artist Awards). Froom had a Fulbright grant for study atCambridge University, and fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Festival The Tanglewood Music Festival is the oldest music festival in the United States. It is held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts. ,the Wellesley Composers Conference, and the MacDowell Colony. He hastaught at the University of Utah, the Peabody Conservatory, and, since1989, St. Mary's College of Maryland St. Mary's College of Maryland, established in 1840, is a public liberal arts college located in St. Mary's City, Maryland. It is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. , where he is professor andchair of the music department. Froom was educated at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB)See also Berzerkley, BSD.http://berkeley.edu/.Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. , the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission andColumbia University.