 |
Franklin
D. Ashdown
Franklin
D. Ashdown is a composer and medical doctor, who has pursued
dual careers for the past 3 decades. Born in 1942, he studied
piano for 12 years, and was “recruited” at age
13 to play the organ for a local congregation. He later studied
organ with Judson Maynard and James Drake, was was privately
coached by Fred Tulan of San Francisco and Leonard Raver of
New York's Juilliard School.
A
widely-published composer of organ and choral music, Ashdown
has had his works performed in venues ranging from Grace Cathedral
in San Francisco and the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City
to St. Paul's Cathedral in London and the Cathedral of Notre
Dame in Paris. His compositions have been featured on American
Public Radio's “Pipedreams,” National Public Radio's “All
Things Considered,” and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's
CBS broadcast, “Music and the Spoken Word.” Leonard
Raver and Stephen Burns recorded his “Requiem for the
'Challenger'” for trumpet and organ on the Classic Masters
label, and James Welch has included some of his solo organ
music in his series of CD recordings for various labels. A
resident of Alamogordo, New Mexico, Ashdown enjoys a full life
as an internist, composer, and organist-choir director for
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Choral
music by Franklin D. Ashdown
Organ
music by Franklin D. Ashdown |
