Dr. Jeffrey Francom
Assistant Professor of Music / Director of Choral Activities
Office: FA 315
- B.M. 2002, Utah State University
- M.M. 2004, University of Florida
- D.M.A. 2009, Stony Brook University
Joined ISU Faculty in 2024
Dr. Jeffrey Francom is Director of Choral Activities at Idaho State
University, where he conducts the ISU Chamber Singers and Concert Choir,
teaches courses in choral music education and conducting, and serves as
artistic director of Pocatello's Camerata Singers and the Idaho
International Choral Festival. From 2009 to 2024, Dr. Francom served as
Associate Professor and Choral Area Coordinator at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane
School of Music, and as faculty for Crane Youth Music. Prior to 2009,
Dr. Francom taught at Suffolk County Community College and Stony Brook
University on Long Island, and for Duval Public Schools in Jacksonville,
Florida.
Highlights of Dr. Francom's career include performances and
presentations at state and regional ACDA/NAfME conferences; commissions
and premieres for chorus and orchestra by Rollo Dilworth, Gary Fry,
William Averitt, Shavon Lloyd, Gregory Wanamaker, Michael Sitton, and
others; chorus master for Helmuth Rilling, JoAnn Falletta, Joseph
Flummerfelt, Larry Rachleff, Ann Howard Jones, Duain Wolfe, Kent Tritle,
Antony Walker, and others, for performances at Carnegie Hall, the
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and elsewhere; international
guest residencies and student tours in Costa Rica, Argentina, Spain,
Germany, France, Peru, and Czechia; and piano concerto performances with
orchestras in California and Utah. He serves as a Repertory and Resource
Coordinator for Idaho ACDA, and as advisor for ISU's student chapters of
ACDA and NAfME.
Dr. Francom was recipient of the Stony Brook University Ackerman Prize,
and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Research Fellowship sponsored by the
Carthusian Trust. Dr. Francom holds degrees in conducting from Stony
Brook University (DMA) and the University of Florida (MM), in
educational leadership from St. Lawrence University (MA), and in piano
performance from Utah State University (BM).