Fred Sturm

Frederick I. Sturm (March 21, 1951 – August 24, 2014) was a jazz composer,

arranger and teacher.^[1]

Sturm studied at

Matrix from 1974 to 1977. He served as Director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University from 1977 to 1991, then joined the Eastman School of Music faculty as professor of jazz composition/arranging, conductor of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble and Studio Orchestra, and chair of the Eastman Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media Department. In 2002, he returned home to Wisconsin to direct the Lawrence University Jazz and Improvisational Music Department and hold the Kimberly-Clark Endowed Professorship in Music.^[3]

Conductor/clinician

Sturm has conducted the HR (Hessischer Rundfunk) Big Band in

Down Beat

magazine has cited his university jazz ensembles with 9 Student Music Awards. He was a co-owner of Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camps.

Composer/arranger

Sturm's Migrations contained indigenous music from 22 countries and was premiered by vocalist Bobby McFerrin and the NDR Big Band in 2007. He toured Europe the following summer. He arranged and recorded two albums: Libertango: Hommage an Astor Piazzolla^[4] and Do It Again: Three Decades of Steely Dan^[5] with the HR Big Band.

Abstract Image won the 2003 ASCAP/IAJE Commission in Honor of Quincy Jones. He is the Artistic Director, composer, and arranger for the Baseball Music Project, a concert program collaboration with the

Baseball Hall of Fame that has been performed by the Boston Pops

and symphony orchestras in Chicago, Seattle, Houston, Miami, Detroit, Indianapolis, Phoenix, and San Diego.

While studying at the University of North Texas College of Music in the 1970s, Sturm was a member of the One O'Clock Lab Band.