Jane Ring Frank - Professional Career

Professional Career

A voting member of The Recording Academy, in 1996 Ring Frank founded Boston Secession a 25 member professional chorus based in Boston, Massachusetts as a vehicle to champion new music, music by women composers, and through her programming style of combining narrative with the music to explore the concert's theme allow the audience to experience a deeper connection with the piece and the performers. Ring Frank has re-scored the classic films Wings of Desire; Like Water for Chocolate; Orpheus; and The Seventh Seal where she replaces the original vocal and musical soundtrack with a live musical performance of instrumentalists and vocalists who recreate the film's narrative via music.

Ring Frank served from 1998–2003 as the Director of Chapel Music at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts collaborating with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Bishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa.

Ring Frank is a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University where she met composer Ruth Lomon who would later become Composer-in-Residence for her professional group Boston Secession. The pair are currently working on the World Premier of Lomon's concert length oratorio Testimony of Witnesses based on the poetry and writings of survivors and victims of the Holocaust. The work is scheduled for World Premier in March 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

While at Brandeis Ring Frank organized the Festival of Women Composers in 2004.

In addition to her responsibilities with Boston Secession Ring Frank is conductor of Philovox; the publishing house of E.C. Schirmer's resident professional recording chorus. She holds a faculty position at Emerson College, Conducts the Concord Women's Chorus, a 50-voice women's chorus, and serves as Director of Music at the First Congregational Church in Winchester, Massachusetts.

Ring Frank has toured extensively as a guest lecturer, choral/instrumental conductor, and pianist in Vienna, Australia, Munich, Prague, Stockholm, Poland and the United States.