Jane Ring Frank

Ring Frank attended California State University at Long Beach where she studied conducting under Frank Pooler. Her Hollywood connections are deep as her Uncle Lawrence Frank along with Walter Van de Kamp founded Lawry's the Prime Rib and associated restaurants such as the Tam O'Shanter and the Five Crowns in the greater Los Angeles area where the regulars were the stars Fatty Arbuckle, John Wayne, Walt Disney and Tom Mix.

Her mother Blanche was also well connected to Hollywood. Blanche Ring Frank's great-aunt was Blanche Ring. an American singer and actress in Broadway theatre productions, musicals, and Hollywood motion pictures who was also featured on many tobacco silks and cards.

Ring Frank's professional career began early in life recording back-up vocals for The Carpenters. After college she served as associate conductor of the 70-voice University Choir, staff pianist, lecturer, and musical director and conductor for the California State University, Long Beach's Department of Theatre Arts.

Ring Frank moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1991 to accept a conducting position at Harvard University.

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;[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-58588403.html Encyclopedia.com]{{dead link|date = September 2012}}[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/ IMDB]{{Failed verification|date=September 2012}} Like Water for Chocolate;[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103994/ IMDB]{{Failed verification|date=September 2012}} Orpheus;{{cite news |title=Accompaniment adds new life to 'Orpheus' |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2006/03/05/accompaniment_adds_new_life_to_orpheus/?page=full |work=www.boston.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061855/http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2006/03/05/accompaniment_adds_new_life_to_orpheus/?page=full |archive-date=4 March 2016}}[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041719/ IMDB]{{Failed verification|date=September 2012}} and The Seventh Seal[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/ IMDB] 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 to 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 [http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc Brandeis University] 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[http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/10/05/festival_spotlights_female_composers/ Boston.com Article] in 2004.[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-7867272.html Encyclopedia.com]

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.{{cite web |title=Concord Women's Chorus, directed by Jane Ring Frank |url=https://concordwomenschorus.org/wp/ |website=Concord Women's Chorus}}

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.

Ring Frank has recorded four CDs:

• An Apple Gathering (1999){{Cite web |url=http://www.usfca.edu/~southerr/finch.html |title=An Apple Gathering |access-date=2008-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104213529/http://www.usfca.edu/~southerr/finch.html |archive-date=2009-01-04 |url-status=dead }} (1997)
• Songs of Remembrance
• Afterlife: German Choral Meditations on Mortality (2005)
• Surprised by Beauty: Minimalism in Choral Music (2008).{{cite news |title=Of Minimalism, Avant-Garde and Beethoven's Sonatas (Published 2008) |work=The New York Times |date=29 June 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/arts/music/29reco.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Surprised%20by%20Beauty:%20Minimalism%20in%20Choral%20Music&st=cse&oref=slogin}}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/scholars/profiles/Frank.html Jane Ring Frank at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center]
• [http://www.bostonsecession.org Boston Secession] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409210243/http://www.bostonsecession.org/ |date=2020-04-09 }}
• [http://www.concordwomenschorus.org Concord Women's Chorus]
• [http://www.cantemus.org Cantemus Chamber Chorus]
• [http://braverecords.com/ Brave Records] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907182125/http://braverecords.com/ |date=2008-09-07 }}

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Frank, Jane Ring}}

Category:1960 births

Category:Living people

Category:California State University, Long Beach alumni

Category:Harvard University staff

Category:American women conductors (music)

Category:Musicians from Los Angeles

Category:Musicians from Boston

Category:Classical musicians from California

Category:Classical musicians from Massachusetts

Category:21st-century American conductors (music)