His instructors were Jacobus Langendoen, Alfred Zighera, Aldo Parisot, Pierre Fournier, Eberhard Finke and Maurice Gendron.
Former president of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker became honorary chairman in 2002 of the support-circle for Spectrum Concerts Berlin, and he spoke of Frank Dodge as one of those ″great artistic personalities″ that are needed to promote cultural cities.
In February 2013 Dodge went with three fellow musicians to Prizren, Kosovo, to the music school Lorenc Antoni, to provide encouragement and inspiration where everything is missing (rooms, instruments, notes, books), but where young people from different religions and cultures have an opportunity for a peaceful coexistence; a 45-minute documentary film for rbb Radio Brandenburg called ″Sehsucht Musik - Forgotten Voices″ covered the visit.
As artistic director of Spectrum Concerts Berlin Frank Dodge has overseen a number of highly praised CDs for Naxos Records.
[18] These include three albums devoted to the chamber music of Ernst Toch, two to Robert Helps, as well as Ernö Dohnányi, John Harbison, Paul Hindemith, Stanley Walden, Ursula Mamlok, Anton Arensky, Erwin Schulhoff, in 2020 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, in 2022 Sergei Taneyev and in 2023 Dmitri Shostakovich.