Fred Frith

ABOUT FRED FRITH

Composer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who helped found the avant-rock group Henry Cow and was in groups like Art Bears.

His first instrument was the violin, which he began learning at age five.

He has been a professor of composition in the Music Department at Mills College in Oakland, California.

He was born into a musical family in Sussex, England.

He has frequently collaborated with Robert Wyatt .