Howard Fredrics

Dr Howard Fredrics (born 6 November 1962) is a American academic, composer and cousin of the late British boxing champion, Jack 'Kid' Berg. Fredrics was a Senior Lecturer in Music at Kingston University between 2002 and 2006. Previous to this he held posts at Texas A&M University, Brown University and Western Carolina University. Fredrics wrote the music to the opera The Whitechapel Whirlwind, an opera about the life of his cousin. In 1992 Fredics was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Sweden for Music Composition. In 1993 he received an Emmy for composing the series theme to Texas Parks And Wildlife. Fredics has been the subject of a long running employment dispute with his former employer Kingston University which has been reported in national media publications such as Times Higher Education.
Kingston University dispute
The employment dispute between Dr Fredrics and Kingston University involves several interrelated issues such as work place bullying within academia, allegations of harassment as well as an intellectual property dispute over a web domain.
After publishing allegations about work place bullying at Kingston University Dr Howard Fredrics was the subject of a harassment allegation by the Vice Chancellor of the University Sir Peter Scott. Fredrics pleaded not guilty to the harassment charge and was preventing from updating the website as a condition of his bail. However, In 2009 Fredrics was found guilty
Fredrics did however win a dispute over the url www.sirpeterscott.com which Fredrics used to air grievances about Kingston University. The World Intellectual Property Organisation ruled that Sir Peter Scott does not have a monopoly of the use of his name as a trade mark.
Selected Publications
*Review of International Computer Music Conference: Evening Concert 3 Array: The Journal of The International Computer Music Association, Fall, 2000
*Intervallic Symmetry as Metaphor for A Cybernetic Age, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 2000, p. 32-37
*Present and Future Methods for Archiving and Storage of Sound Recordings, Proceedings of the Second Symposium of Music (September, 1993). Revised and reprinted in Journal of the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (Winter, 1999)

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