ABOUT

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Trevor Frost (b. 1994) is an educator, conductor, and composer based in the Greater St. Louis area. Frost currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. He earned a B.M. in music education and earned a M.M. in music conducting from the University of New Hampshire as a student of Dr. Andrew Boysen Jr. and studied composition with Dr. Boysen and Dr. Michael Annicchiarico, and earned his D.M.A. in wind band conducting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a student of Dr. Carolyn Barber and studied composition with Dr. Tyler White and Dr. Greg Simon.

Frost began his career as visiting assistant professor of music and associate director of bands at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas. His duties included teaching music appreciation, instrumental and choral arranging, composition, conducting and rehearsal techniques, and directing the symphonic band and concert band along with supervising the pep band. Prior to his academic work, Frost served as the music director at Paul Elementary K-8 School in Wakefield, New Hampshire, creating and developing a band and choir program and writing a K-8 general music curriculum.

Frost's primary area of research is influencing wind band literature focusing on its dynamic relationship between programming practices, trends, and band director thinking along with its role in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Frost also remains passionate of reimagining wind band pedagogy and rethinking large ensemble rehearsals as a vehicle for student creativity through the use of sympoiesis, a biological term meaning "making-with" coined by Canadian biologist Beth Dempster.

Frost remains active as a composer, receiving commissions from the University of New Hampshire Wind Symphony, the Keene State Concert Choir, Lebanon High School (NH) Concert Band and Choir, and Norris High School (NE) Marching Band. Frost’s works have been performed all over the U.S. and was selected as one of six composers for the “Composing in the Wilderness 2023 Lake Clark” program led by Composer-Adventurer Stephen Lias. This resulted in premiere performances by the Stephen F. Austin State University Wind Ensemble, the Grand Valley State University Wind Symphony, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wind Ensemble.