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The St. Mary’s faculty foster intellectual, social and ethical development, within a community dedicated to diversity and accessibility. We provide students with opportunities to understand and serve local, national and global communities, and to accomplish social change.

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Premiere of New Work for Wind Ensemble by David Froom, in Salado, TX

April 19, 2021

As our year-long pandemic begins to ease, some public live music performance is returning. The First Cavalry Division Army Band, stationed at Fort Hood (Texas), will give the first performance of "Manna" Variations. The concert is on May 15, part of the "Tablerock Festival of Salado." The event is… Find Out More

Merideth Taylor's artwork in MSAC exhibit

March 8, 2021

Artwork by Professor Emerita of Theater and Dance Merideth Taylor is included in a Maryland State Art's Council virtual exhibit titled IDENTITY. The exhibit will be available for viewing through April 6 at: https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/4292279/identity

Professors De Pree & Grossman Speak at Physics Teachers Conference

January 12, 2021

Two physics professors from St. Mary’s College of Maryland gave talks at the American Association of Physics Teacher’s virtual winter meeting.
Erin De Pree, associate professor and chair of the physics department, described training physics students to diffuse racial microaggressions. Work in… Find Out More

Grossman to Chair American Physical Society’s Committee on Education

November 11, 2020

The American Physical Society (APS) has selected Josh Grossman, professor of physics, to chair its Committee on Education in 2021. Grossman has served on the committee since the start of 2019. The APS Committee on Education promotes and supports the education of physics students at all levels… Find Out More

David Froom's "Yeats Songs" Performed at University of Utah

November 10, 2020

On Monday, Nov. 10, the University of Utah School of Music's New Music Ensemble released a live-stream performance of Professor of Music David Froom's "Yeats Songs." The two songs, using Yeats's poems, "The Wild Swans at Coole" and "Clothes of Heaven," are for soprano and violin. They were… Find Out More

Professor of Music David Froom's Music Featured in Online Concert

October 1, 2020

While the ongoing pandemic has closed concert halls throughout the world, performers and presenting organizations are finding creative ways to stay active. The California Music Center, home to the Klein International String Competition, is creating and posting "Klein@Home Hour" online programs that… Find Out More

David Froom's Solo Flute Music in Newly Published Anthology

September 14, 2020

The publisher American Composers Alliance has released a new anthology, "Flute Works by American Composers, 12 pieces for flute alone." Included in this collection are two works by Professor of Music David Froom: "To Dance to the Whistling Wind" and "Ribbons." These two works, written in 1993 and… Find Out More

Professor David Froom's Newest Recording

July 20, 2020

Rita Porfiris recording David Froom's "Shades of Red."

St. Mary's College Professor of Music David Froom's "Shades of Red" for solo viola has just been released as part of the American Composer Alliance's "The Shelter Recordings," an initiative created to support musicians sheltering in place while awaiting the return of live performing. Froom's music … Find Out More

Rie Moore and David Froom Win Individual Artist Awards from the State of Maryland

May 15, 2020

St. Mary's College alumna Rie Moore '19 and Professor of Music David Froom have each been awarded Maryland Individual Artist Awards. They were among the 50 award winners (the only two from St. Mary's County) chosen from more than 250 applicants. Moore was awarded for "promise and innovation" in… Find Out More

David Froom Wins National Composers Competition

February 3, 2020

Professor of Music David Froom's clarinet concerto, "Canzoni di Notte" has been announced as the first prize-winner of the Riverside Symphony's National Composers Competition. As the winner, this work will receive its premiere performance in Alice Tully Hall (New York City), conducted by George… Find Out More

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