Jacqueline Froom was the co-creator and organizer of the Summer Music summer school in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex.
13 Facts About Jacqueline Froom
Jacqueline Froom was born in Croydon in 1929, the only child of Sidney and Kathleen Froom.
Jacqueline Froom's father was a civil servant at the Admiralty.
Jacqueline Froom attended Whyteleafe School for Girls and had planned to attend university.
Jacqueline Froom then continued in publishing, spending several years with Brockhampton Press and ultimately serving as an assistant to the Music Editor at Oxford University Press.
Jacqueline Froom met Jonathan Hinden, a member of the music staff at Glyndebourne, when he was the accompanist for her singing class, and they married in 1968.
Jacqueline Froom became an enthusiastic Bridge player, obtained an Area Community Service Employment and Training Council qualification and taught Bridge and Creative Writing for the local Adult Education in Brighton.
Jacqueline Froom played for one of the Sussex County teams.
Jacqueline Froom received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex.
Jacqueline Froom won several competitions, notably second place in the 2008 Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry, and published a volume of her poems.
When Murray Gordon retired in the early 1990s, Jacqueline Froom continued with Jonathan Hinden taking over the programming and business sides.
Whilst working for Oxford University Press, Jacqueline Froom provided texts and translations for several musical settings, all published by OUP:.
Jacqueline Froom worked in partnership with composer Betty Roe to produce a range of works for various forces.