| Christopher Froh Christopher 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 playing marimba for a video game about monkeys and pirates for LucasArts. He is a member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Empyrean Ensemble, the new music improvisation group sfSound, and Gamelan Sekar Jaya. He has also performed with Earplay, Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, 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 CSU Sacramento and currently teaches at UC Davis. O1C Performances: Empyrean Ensemble |
