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Dr. john frantz

Dr. Frantz earned a BA in Sacred Music and a MA in violin from Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC. He pursued further study with violinist Berl Senofsky at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD. 

In 1982 he became a member of the Mississippi Symphony as a core violinist. While in Jackson, MS, Frantz served a Lutheran parish as organist and choirmaster.

In the last ten years, Frantz has earned a MM in Theory/Composition, summa cum laude, from Mississippi College and a DMA in Composition from the University of South Carolina. While working on his doctorate he was chosen by the USC music faculty to become a member of the music honor society of Pi Kappa Lambda in 2001.

Frantz’s instrumental and choral works have been commissioned and/or performed by different groups in Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina: Frantz’s tone poem, Samson, by The Mississippi Symphony; the Honors College Choir of  the University of South Carolina premiered O Sacred Convivium at USC in 2000;  Shout Joyfully was commissioned by the Young Cape May Singers of Cape May, New Jersey in 2001;  Hoeren Sie, a trio for clarinet, violin and piano at East Carolina University's Second Annual New Music Festival in 2002 and The College Music Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter Conference at Davidson College, NC in 2003; and Psalm 93 by Colla Voce of Columbia, SC in 2004. His church music for string quartet has been performed around the country and is published by Live Oak House Publications in Texas.

Dr. Frantz is currently on the adjunct music faculty of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount.

 

Updated: Friday, October 20, 2006

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