Fredrick Kaufman

Fredrick Kaufman (1936) is an American composer.

Kaufman was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied trumpet, composition and jazz at the Manhattan School of Music (BMus 1959, MMus 1960). In addition, he studied composition with Vincent Persichetti at the Juilliard School.

He played trumpet with the New York City Ballet Orchestra and later became professor of composition at the University of Wisconsin. After serving as dean of the Philadelphia College for the Performing Arts from 1982 to 1985, he became director of the School of Music at Florida International University in Miami.

Kaufman is the composer of over one hundred and thirty published compositions that have been performed worldwide by orchestras such as the Warsaw Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Czech Radio Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Lithuanian Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Czech Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Instrumental Ensemble of Grenoble, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra Novi Musici (Naples, Italy), 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, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Batsheva Dance Company, Bat-Dor Dance Company, and the Pennsylvania Dance Theater.

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