cmfroh@ucdavis.edu
Room 206, 105
Music Building
Teaching Schedule
W 9 am–6 pm,
TH 8 am–4 pm
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Chris Froh is a San Francisco freelance
percussionist specializing in new music written
for solo and chamber settings. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University
of Michigan and has also studied at the Eastman
School of Music and the Toho Gakuen Conservatory
of Music, where he was a special audit student of
marimbist Keiko Abe.
Froh was a founding director of the Ann Arbor,
Michigan-based Brave New Works ensemble, where he
produced and performed in dozens of concerts.
Since moving to the Bay Area in 1999, he has been
heard in a variety of settings, from solo
percussionist with the Berkeley Repertory Theater
to marimba player for a video game about monkeys
and pirates for LucasArts. He is a member of the
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players,
Empyrean Ensemble, new music improvisation group
sfSound, and Gamelan Sekar Jaya. He has also
performed with Earplay, the Berkeley Contemporary
Chamber Players, and Santa Cruz New Music Works and
at the Other Minds, Berkeley EdgeFest, Festival
Nuovi Spazi Musicali, and Pacific Rim music festivals. He performs abroad frequently, including regular tours of Japan with marimbists
Keiko Abe and Mayumi Hama. He has taught
percussion at California State University, Sacramento, and currently
teaches
at UC Davis.
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