Franklin Cox

Franklin Cox (born Charleston, Illinois, United States, 1961) is an American composer and cellist.He composes music in the school of New Complexity (Duncan 2010, 139) and his performances range from new music to classical chamber works.

Cox studied with Brian Ferneyhough at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Pace 1995, 37).

He is currently (2020) Associate Professor of Cello at Wright State University, heading Music Theory classes and the cello studio in the School of Music.His ongoing concert series, The New Cello, features his work in addition to other composers that explore new possibilities on the instrument through extended techniques and microtonality.

• Di-remption, for solo percussionist
• Four Pieces for double bass
• If on a Winter's Night ..., for solo clarinet
• Clairvoyance, for violin solo
• Clairvoyance, transcribed for cello solo
• Recoil, for cello soloå
• viz., for chamber ensemble
• Chronopolis (1996), for solo flute

• The New Cello, Vol 1 – American Composers. Centaur Records 2994 (2010).
• New Music Series Volume 4. Neuma Records 450-102 (2002). Includes Shift, for five cellos, performed by Frank Cox.
• Surplus Live auf Solitude. Stuttgart: Edition Solitude, ACD 6024-3. Includes R, performed by Surplus, dir. James Avery.
• Pierre-Yves Artaud, flauto. Milan: Rusty Classica, RUS 555019.2. Includes Chronopolis, performed by Pierre-Yves Artaud.

• Group For Contemporary Music
• Exposé
• Surplus
• Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
• Ensemble Köln
• Extended Vocal Resources Ensemble (founding member)
• C-squared (founding member)