Nathan Froebe

Visiting Professor of Music
Springwood Hall 214
(765) 973-8680
nfroebe@iu.edu
nathanfroebe.com

Education

• D.M.A., Composition / Wind Conducting (minor) - University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
• M.L.S., Music/Composition - Fort Hays State University, 2014
• B.M.E., Piano & Saxophone - Pittsburg State University, 2006

Selected Current and Recent Compositions

• In Paths Untrodden, a setting of Walt Whitman texts in a queer reading and musical scoring with agender voice roles and malleable narrative construction, set for two voices and piano, as well as two voices and a Pierrot-plus-percussion ensemble
• Symphony No.1 - Arc of the Rainbow, a symphony for wind ensemble revolving around the LGBT+ coming out process and forming an identity in today’s society through that process
• Addiction’s Actuality, an electroacoustic work for trombone, piano, and pre-recorded sounds, featuring live interviews of people sharing their stories of life coping with addiction as a means of opening dialogue on the topic
• A Mighty Woman with a Torch, a setting of Emma Lazarus poem “The New Colossus,” for SATB choir, piano, trumpet, and snare drum, exploring questions and themes of patriotism and immigration

Selected Conferences Appearances/Performances

• Society of Composers, Inc. Region V Conference, Oct. 2019 - A Mighty Woman with a Torch (SATB Choir, piano, trumpet, snare drum)
• New Music on the Bayou, June 2019 - Glint, (trumpet and percussion)
• Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI Conference, Apr. 2019 - What Words Cannot Say (trombone quartet)
• North American Saxophone Alliance Region V Conference, March 2017 - Un/Controlled (alto saxophone); Enthralled, Enraptured, Emancipated (soprano saxophone and percussion)

Awards

• Quarter-Finalist, 2020 GRAMMY Music Educator Award
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Symphony Showcase Winner - Portrait d’une femme (mezzo-soprano and orchestra)