Musicatlas
Music
The below works are listed on opus number.
- 1. String Quartet No. 1
- 2. Spectra for 4 hands/one piano
- 3. Antithesis for vocal quartet (SATB) flute, cello, and piano
- 4. Dosolfitela for flute and piano
- 5. Excursion for solo piano (1975)
- 6. The Dawn for alto flute and harp (1979)
- 7. The Camellias for solo flute (1980)
- 8. Songs of Beckoning for soprano and piano (1983)
- 9. Five Preludes for solo piano
- 10. Kyrie for voices SATB
- 11. Symphonic Matrix for orchestra
- 12. Unicorn for orchestra
- 13. Sonata for cello and piano
- 14. Beethoveniana for solo cello (2006)
- 15. The Painters for woodwind quartet
- 16. Bachanalia for 2 pianos
Life
Chris Frigon was born and grew up in Barre, Vermont where he began piano, cello, and tuba lessons. He attended Boston University, studying with John Goodman, Hugo Norden, and Gardner Read; and accomplishing a Bachelor of Music degree (summa cum laude) in composition and theory, and a Master of Music majoring in composition and orchestration. He studied piano with Leon Tumarkin and Edwine Behre.
He taught composition and theory at the Adamant Music School. For eleven years, he taught piano, composition, counterpoint, orchestration, ear training, and analysis at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
With Camille Roman, he cofounded and coedited The Twayne Music Book Series and served as individual volume editor for books on The Beatles, Sonny Rollins, Claude Debussy, Carlos Chavez, Olivier Messiaen, Downhome Blues Lyrics, Lester Young, and Black Women Composers.
He currently manages a blog Symphony Salon (http://symphonysalon.blogspot.com/).