WALLINGFORD – Frank Brieff, long time conductor of the New Haven Symphony, Bach Aria Group of New York City and the Waterbury Symphony passed away on Nov. 22, 2005. He was born in 1912. He gave his first violin concert at age seven. He graduated from New York University in 1933 and had been awarded a scholarship for 3 summers studying with Nadia Boulanger in Fontainebleau, France.