Paul Fadoul

Biography

After percussionist Paul Fadoul’s second appearance with the National Symphony Orchestra, The Washington Post declared, “He knows how to evoke mystery in the dying fall of a phrase and let tension gather in the silences between them.” Recent highlights include the premiere of Revolution, his show combining music of Dmitri Shostakovich with David Ives’ play Variations on the Death of Trotsky at the Gros Morne Summer Music Festival in Newfoundland, the debut of his family show Break it Down! at the Kennedy Center with flutist Zara Lawler, and Lawler + Fadoul’s CD release, Prelude Cocktail, featuring world premieres by Katherine Hoover and Roshanne Etezady. Fadoul has given solo and chamber music performances across the North America and Spain, and has performed with artists such as Evan Ziporyn, Martin Bresnick, and Robert van Sice. He is percussionist with Dark by Five, ensemble in residence at the Gros Morne Summer Music Festival. As a member of Tales & Scales from 2003-2005, he performed in over two hundred educational shows annually, including performances with the Milwaukee, Buffalo, and Oregon Symphonies. Formerly, Fadoul was the Peabody Institute’s youngest faculty member, teaching undergraduate and graduate percussion majors. He graduated from the Yale School of Music and his honors include the Yale Alumni Award, the Brewster Award for the Kennedy Center Education Program, and the first prize in the National Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition college division. Based in Washington, DC, Fadoul is also in demand as a composer and coach of drumlines, and his ensemble has won a WGI national championship and numerous gold medals.