Fredrick Kaufman

Background

About Fredrick Kaufman

Fredrick Kaufman's compositions that have been performed worldwide by orchestras such as the Warsaw Philharmonic,Israel Philharmonic, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Czech Radio Orchestra, Lithuanian Philharmonic, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Instrumental Ensemble of Grenoble, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra Novi Musici, Dominican Republic National Orchestra, National Orchestra of Brazil, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic,New World Symphony and the Pittsburgh Symphony orchestras. His ballets have been danced by companies such as the Royal Swedish Ballet,Batsheva Dance Company & Bat-Dor Dance Company. Kaufman's Holocaust composition Kaddish which Bernard Holland of The New York Times described as "having the most expressive writing for strings to be heard today," has been performed world wide over 100 times. Renowned artists Richard Stoltzman, Julius Baker, Susan Starr, Roy Malan, Mark Drobinsky, Andres Diaz, David Kim, Roberto Diaz, Yehuda Hananni, Charles Neidich, Kemal Gekic, Paul Green, The Miami String Quartet, The Diaz Trio, the Amernet String Quartet and others have recorded and performed his concertos and chamber music. Israeli television has paid tribute to him as a composer in the thirty-minute documentary film Fredrick Kaufman-Life of an Artist. Critics from the New York Times; Newark Star-Ledger, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Jerusalem Post, London Times, Perpignan Independent and others around the world have described his music as striking, individual an interesting combination of overwhelming pathos and infectious joy, brought one into the realm of musical genius. His Kaminarimon (for Taiko drums and Flamenco dance) was voted as the number one classical composition of 2002 by music critic, James Roos of The Miami Herald. His String Quartet #6,"The Urban" called "stunning" by New Yorker Magazine was nominated by Lulkas Foss in 2007 for a Pulitzer Prize.