Frances White

Frances White

Frances White (b.1960) composes instrumental and electronic music. She studied composition at the University of Maryland, Brooklyn College, and Princeton University.  She has received awards, honors, grants, commissions, and fellowships from organizations such as Prix Ars Electronica, the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, the International Computer Music Association, Hungarian Radio, ASCAP, the Bang On A Can Festival, the Other Minds Festival, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Dale Warland Singers, the American Music Center, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and The Third Practice Festival. Recently, her Walk through “Resonant landscape” No. 2 was featured as part of the soundtrack of Gus Van Sant’s award-winning film Elephant.