Paul Pattloch & Brandt Fredriksen
Biography Paul Pattloch & Brandt Fredriksen
Paul Pattloch
attended the Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama in Hamburg and graduated with a major in acting. In his final year of training he made his professional stage debut in Lutherstadt Wittenberg as Koloss in Nigel Williams’s Class Enemy. This was followed by three years with the Schleswig-Holstein State Theatre and Symphony Orchestra. There he played roles in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (Lorenzo), Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera (Filch), Friedrich Hebbel’s The Nibelungen (Giselher), and many more.
Together with his colleague Karl-Heinz Barthelmeus, Pattloch organized a reading of texts by Wolfgang Borchert in Berlin. In New York he studied singing with Betty Allen at the Harlem School of the Arts and with James King at Indiana University Bloomington. This was followed by touring productions such as Fiddler on the Roof (Jerry Bock) and The Phantom of the Opera by Arndt Gerber and Paul Wilhelm.
Paul Pattloch also worked at ASA Event GmbH in Bietigheim-Bissingen in tour management, ticketing, and tour organization. Since then, he has worked as a voice coach, voice artist, actor, and personal coach in the USA.
Brandt Fredriksen
performs internationally as both a soloist and accompanist, appearing at prestigious venues such as Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Florence Gould Hall in New York, Munich’s Gasteig, the Megaron in Athens, and concert halls in Thessaloniki and Beijing. He made his debut recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Gasteig in Munich, and the Vafopoulio Cultural Center in Thessaloniki.
An active chamber musician, Fredriksen has performed with members of the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the American String Quartet. His performances have been broadcast on radio and television in the USA, Greece, and China. He is also the pianist and musical director of That’s Not Tango: Astor Piazzolla – A Life in Music, conceived and written by Lesley Karsten and Stephen Wadsworth.
Fredriksen is a recipient of the Munz Award from the Juilliard School. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University (State University of New York), a Master of Music from the Juilliard School, and a Bachelor of Music from Indiana University.
