Lafayette Fredrikson

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lafayette Fredrikson (born April 15, 1970 in Munich ) is a German composer .

Fredrikson has a cross-genre approach to work and combines classical, jazz and pop elements. He also combines music, literature and photography. He is the founder of the artist group "Blickdichter", which combines music, theater, literature, photography and multimedia installations. Other prominent members are the actors Alexander Netschajew and Konstantin Moreth as well as music producer Tom Mueller, who is responsible for the sound of the pop star Peter Schilling ("Major Tom").

He completed a music degree at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and at the University of Music in Karlsruhe.

As a composer and arranger for film, radio drama and theater, Fredrikson has music for the radio play version of Jacques Tati's “The Holidays of Monsieur Hulot”, for the German-Italian television series “Two Men and Women” with August Zirner and Luca Barbareschi and stage music for Josef Hannesschläger wrote.

Works (selection)

  • “Twelve Oden to the New Age” (1988/89) for violoncello and guitar
  • “A Mass in A-minor” (1990) for choir, organ and chamber orchestra
  • "Three Years To Go, Bill Gates" (1997) audio collage
  • “Cinq Peintures” (1994/2003) for solo guitar
  • “Kiss me, DJ!” (2001/2003) stage radio play in 15 ballads
  • “Rag & Time” (2004) for solo guitar
  • “Zwei Tänze” (2004) for guitar solo