Frederick A. Fox

Frederick Fox ( born January 17, 1931 in Detroit, † 24 August 2011) was an American composer and music educator.

Fox had in his youth in Detroit saxophone lessons with Laurence Teal and music theory lessons at Ray McConnell. He then studied composition with Ruth Shaw Wylie at Wayne State University, Ross Lee Finney at the University of Michigan and Bernhard Heiden at Indiana University.

He began in 1974 to teach at Indiana University and founded in the same year, the New Music Ensemble of the University, which he directed until 1992. Among his pupils were, inter alia, James Whitton Aikman, David Dzubay, Teresa LeVelle, Stefan Freund, Till MacIvor Meyn, David Heuser, Margaret Brouwer, Timothy Luby, David DeBoor Canfield and Andrew Earle Simpson.

Fox has composed several works for saxophone, including Shaking the Pumpkin, Visitations and Hear Again in Memory ( Eugene Rousseau ), SAX ( for Larry Teal ) and Annexus ( for Thomas Liley ); also a ballet, orchestral works and instrumental concertos, chamber music and choral works. In his compositions he connects the serial technique of composition with influences from jazz music.

Fox has won several awards for his compositions, including He received three awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. His works have been performed in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Japan. Were taken, inter alia, Night Ceremonies with the Louisville Orchestra and The Descent Gregg Smith Singers with.

• Composer ( Third Stream )
• Music teacher
• Conductor
• American composer
• Born in 1931
• Died in 2011
• Man