Frederick Waxman
Credits
| Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 |
Composition and Sound Design
Music & Singing |
Misrule Park Theatre |
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| 2021 |
Conductor
Music & Singing |
St John Passion Figure |
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| 2021 |
Composition and Sound Design
Music & Singing |
AMERICA! Voloz Collective |
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| 2021 |
Composer
Music & Singing |
It's not perverse, it's mothers Anoushka Samms |
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| 2020 |
Musical Director and Arranger
Music & Singing |
Venus and Adonis New Renaissance Collective |
|
| 2020 |
Composer
Music & Singing |
Eurydice Hector Gifford |
|
| 2019 |
Assistant Musical Director
Music & Singing |
Dido and Aeneas Queille Festival |
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| 2019 |
Musical Director
Music & Singing |
War is My Condition Ante Terminum |
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| 2019 |
Musical Director
Music & Singing |
Stimmung Ante Terminum |
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| 2018 |
Composer
Music & Singing |
Timetravellers Teatr Lesi |
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| 2018 |
Musical Director
Music & Singing |
Beaten Gold New Renaissance Collective |
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| 2018 |
Musical Director
Music & Singing |
Curlew River Ante Terminum |
Education
| Year | Qualification | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | MMus in Advanced Instrumental Studies (Merit) | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| 2017 | Experimental Psychology (Academic Exhibitioner) | University College, Oxford |
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About me
Frederick Waxman is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from London. He read Experimental Psychology at University College, Oxford, where he was an Academic Exhibitioner, Instrumental Scholar, and Choral Scholar, before completing an MMus in Performance at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Frederick performs music across a range of genres, from jazz to renaissance, and has played on stages from the Wiener Musikverein, to Glastonbury Festival, as well as live on national TV and radio. Frederick composes and arranges music for theatre and film. A recent film highlight is Strasbourg, with the Prince Charles Cinema, and theatre highlights include Timetravellers at Teatr Lesi (Lviv, Ukraine), working with refugees from the Donbas conflict.Frederick also works as a musical director. In 2021, he founded Figure in order to pursue his passion for historically-informed performance. Of Figure's inaugural concert, a performance of Bach's St John Passion, Michael Church, critic for The Independent, wrote it "raised the hairs on the back of the neck… the work took wing, with [Figure] magnificently delivering its climactic moments of terror and joy… In June 2022 he brought Figure to Opera Holland Park with Handel's Serse, prompting The Guardian to label the group as one to watch: "Figure clearly has good ideas, good musicians and good support, so expect to see more of them."
Prior to Figure, Frederick staged Britten's Curlew River, which was praised as “a pearl of a production” by Richard Bratby of The Spectator, and “a dedicated and moving production” by Rupert Christiansen of The Telegraph. He is also Musical Director of the New Renaissance Collective, for whom he arranges and reworks Renaissance music.
Skills
| Secondary Job Title | Music Direction |
|---|---|
| Job Titles | Copywriter / Copy Editor, Sound Operator / Engineer, Music Director, Music Producer, Composer, Teacher, Music Production |
| Years in industry | 3 to 6 years |
| Organisations / Memberships | ISM, Musicians Union (UK) |
| Musical Skills | Guitar, Hammond Organ, Harpsichord, Organ, Percussion, Piano/Keyboards, Synthesiser |
| Musical Style | Ambient, Avant-garde, Ballet, Baroque, Bluegrass, Blues, Boogie woogie, Bossa nova, Chamber, Classic rock, Classical, Concerto, Cool jazz, Country, Disco, Electronica, Experimental, Funk, Gospel, Hip hop, Improv, Jazz, Pop |