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The active international career of bass singer Joel Frederiksen includes appearances in opera, oratorio, and concert on stages all around the world with leading ensembles both from the United States and Europe. As an operatic soloist he appeared at prestigious festivals such as the Salzburg Summer Festival (under Dennis Russel Davies in Kurt Weill‘s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagony) or the Vancouver Summer Festival, where he played the role of Plutone in Monteverdi‘s Orfeo with Paul O‘Dette and Stephen Stubbs. With Stephen Stubbs he also sang in Emilio de Cavalieri‘s Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo in Germany. At the Hong Kong Arts Festival he performed in Monteverdi‘s L‘incoronazione di Poppea and Orfeo. Mr. Frederiksen performed in the staged medieval music dramas Lazarus as well as Daniel and the Lions at Australia’s Brisbane Arts Festival and in New York and Washington, DC. He appeared at the Passau Music Festival with the Orpheus Choir of Munich singing Giacomo Carissimi‘s Jephthe and as the narrator/bass soloist in the premiere of Be Still, composed by Lawrence Traiger on the theme of “September 11“. As an oratorio soloist Mr. Frederiksen sang Johann Sebastian Bach‘s B-minor mass with Jordi Savall and La Capella Reial de Catalunya in Spain. He has also closely co-operated with orchestras such as New York‘s Fairfield Orchestra and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, with which he appeared as Jesus in Bach‘s St. John Passion and Polyphemus in Georg Friedrich Handel‘s Acis and Galatea. With the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra and Orlando di Lasso Ensemble he performed Claudio Monteverdi‘s Marienvespers and Biber‘s Requiem. As a bass singer he regularly is engaged by many internationally recognized ensembles, including the Huelgas Ensemble, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Accentus Austria, Unicorn Ensemble, Daedalus Ensemble, Ricercar Ensemble and Musica Fiata. As a member of the American ensembles Waverly Consort and Boston Camerata he toured extensively and recorded over a dozen CDs during his fifteen years of living in New York. His contribution to the catalogue of recorded music includes recordings for prestigious labels such as Erato, Harmonia mundi, Virgin/EMI, Angel and RCA. His solo CD “Orpheus, I am“ (2003) received remarkable critical acclaim and was broadcast by radio stations both in the United States (WQXR) and Europe (BBC Radio in England and Bavarian State Radio in Germany). Of particular note is Mr. Frederiksen‘s attention to the close association drawn between music and rhetoric of the time. His historically informed musical arrangements and direction lead to the birth of project “Villeggiatura“ (premiere in July 2004 in Germany), paying homage to the culture of the Italian Renaissance in music, dance and literature. Joel Frederiksen‘s education includes the Master‘s Degree from Oakland University in Michigan, where he was honored with the Distinguished Musicianship Award (1990) and Alumni of the Year in Music (2003), master classes at Salzburg‘s Mozarteum with Helena Lazarska, and in New York, independent studies at New York University and private study in the studios of William Schumann and Myron McPherson. |