Jane Ring Frank

Areas of Expertise

Music; Creative Arts

Email: jrfrank@brandeis.edu

Current Project

In the 2009-10 season, Ms. Frank will be working directly with composer Libby Larsen, who will be setting the texts of three Concord, MA female poets and authors.  Ms. Larsen has been commissioned to compose a large work in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Concord Women’s Chorus, culminating in a workshop and concert in early May, 2010.

Biography

Jane Ring Frank is Artistic Director/Founder of Boston Secession, a 23-voice professional chorus dedicated to musical excellence, a lush but transparent tone, and keen scholarship.  Ms. Frank’s newest CD, “Surprised by Beauty:  Minimalism in Choral Music,” has received accolades in the New York Times, Gramophone, and American Record Guide as well as a number of smaller magazines, journals, and blogs.  In past seasons, Boston Secession has participated in a number of scholar collaborations, including the premiere of “regardisregard,” the work of two WSRC scholars - artist Mary Oestereicher Hamill and composer Ruth Lomon.  Boston Secession has also premiered many movements of Ms. Lomon’s Testimony of Witnesses an oratorio based on the poetry of Holocaust victims and survivors.  

Ms. Frank has recently been appointed as Conductor of Philovox, E.C. Schirmer’s Professional Recording Chorus.  She is Minister of Music at the First Congregational Church in Winchester and Conductor/Artistic Director of the Concord Women’s Chorus.  For many years, she was a faculty member at Emerson College, specializing in voice and audition techniques, and has served as faculty at California State University, Long Beach, where she held positions as Conductor, Staff Opera Coach, Staff Pianist and Director of Music.

Education

M.M., California State University

B.M., California State University

Representative Publications

Afterlife:  German Choral Meditations on Mortality, featuring the works of Johannes Brahms, Hugo Distler, J.S. Bach and scholar Ruth Lomon; The Boston Secession, Jane Ring Frank, Artistic Director, Release Date:  March, 2005, Brave Records.

Surprised by Beauty:  Minimalism in Choral Music, featuring the works of Ruth Lomon, Gavin Bryars, Arvo Part, and William Duckworth; Boston Secession, Jane Ring Frank, Artistic Director, Release Date:  Fall, 2007.

Links

Boston Secession

Concord Women's Chorus

E.C. Schirmer Publishing