Fredrik Schwenk (* 20 October 1960 in Munich) is a German composer and music teacher. He grew up in Munich and, after his first attempts at composition at the age of 13, received cello lessons from Erich Bruckner and composition lessons from David Llywelyn, later piano lessons from Daniel Herscovich. After graduating from high school and doing his basic military service, he studied art history and theatre studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität from 1981 to 1987 and composition with Wilhelm Killmayer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. In 1989 he received a scholarship to the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. From 1991 to 1993 he directed the opera workshop and in 2005 and 2006 the radio play workshop of the International Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth. Initially a co-initiator and founding member, he was a board member of A-DEvantgarde e.V. Projekte Neuer Musik from 1992 to 1999, together with Moritz Eggert and Sandeep Bhagwati.

After teaching at the University of Music and Theatre Munich and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich as well as a full-time lectureship at the University of Music Nuremberg-Augsburg, he has been professor of music theory and composition at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg since October 2000.[1] Together with Peter Michael Hamel, he directed Studio 21, which is funded by the Zeit-Stiftung in Hamburg. From 2004 to 2010, he was dean of all artistic courses of study. Since 2009 he has been artistic director of the Akademie Opus XXI for contemporary music. As a co-initiator, he directs the international CoPeCo (Contemporary Performance and Composition) master's programme in contemporary music between the Estonian Academy of Music, the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, the CNSMD Lyon and the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, which is funded by the EU.

Among the numerous national and international awards, the Hindemith Foundation Scholarship (Blonay CH 1990), the Cultural Promotion Scholarship of the City of Munich (1992), the Carl Orff Prize for Contemporary Music Theatre (Munich, 1995) and the Franz Josef Reinl Foundation (Vienna 1998) should be mentioned.

Since November 2020, Fredrik Schwenk has been Chairman of the Board of the Hamburger Volksbühne