INTRODUCTION:

Adam Frandsen is a full, lyric tenor born 1983 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He begun his singing as a young boy in the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir, and started his opera studies in 2005 studying privately with guest professor at the Copenhagen Royal Opera, Douglas Yates. He then moved to Houston, Texas, where he studied under Professor Timothy Jones, conductors Peter Jacoby and Lucy Arner, and director Buck Ross at the Moores School of Music. Mr. Frandsen later enrolled at the Yale University School of Music where he worked with bass Richard Cross. Mr. Frandsen is currently a student of Marlena Kleinman Malas at the Curtis Institute of Music.

He has sung the following roles: Don Jose in Carmen, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Ruggero in La Rondine, Arcadio in Florencia en el Amazonas, Orpheus in Orpheus in the Underworld, Leon in Signor Deluso, The Prologue in The Turn of the Screw, Flavio in Norma and Idomeneo in Idomeneo.

Mr. Frandsen has been a part of the Aspen Music Festival, The International Vocal Arts Institute Israel as well as the IIVA Puerto Rico. He has worked with and received master classes from Joan Dornemann, Sherill Milnes, Mignon Dunn, Haakan Hagegaard, Vinson Cole and Patrick Summers.  He was a regional finalist in the 2008 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and has been awarded grants and scholarships from Moores, Yale, Curtis, and several American as well as Danish organizations.

As a concert singer he has sung Händel’s Messiah, Saint Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio, Dubois Seven Last Words of Christ and Schuberts Die Schoene Muellerin.

His upcoming performances include the role of Faust, in the Gounod opera of that same name, with the Curtis Opera. A solo recital at the renowned Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen with songs from Scandinavia by composers such as Carl Nielsen, Grieg and Sibelius. The tenor soloist in Mozarts Requiem with the Aarhus Symphony, and finally he will be singing the role of Gastone in Verdis La Traviata with Opera Hedeland. Most lately Mr. Frandsen was accepted to the IVAI in Virginia, where he will be performing opera excerpts and songs in a chamber music setting.