Eugene Friesen

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Eugene Friesen (* 1952 ) is an American cellist and composer who has worked mainly in world jazz , but also in classical music.

Live and act

Friesen, whose father Dietrich Friesen worked as a church musician, conductor and professor at Fresnu Pacific University , played the cello from the age of ten . During his high school years he played with the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra and in its string quartet and string trio . In college, he also turned to the blues and played in a rock band . Then he studied at the Yale School of Music with Aldo Parisot , through whom he got to know Brazilian folk music.

In 1978 he became a member of the Paul Winter Consort , which he is still associated with today. He appeared on three Grammy- winning albums for the group: 1994 Spanish Angel, 2006 to Silver Solstice, and 2007 Crestone. He also played in the classic Delos Quartet at the University of Delaware . Since 1986 he has released various albums under his own name. Since 1990 he has also appeared with Howard Levy and Glen Velez in the trio Globo. He can also be heard on recordings by William Ackerman, Anthony Davis , Oscar Castro-Neves , Scott Cossu, Phil Markowitz , Toots Thielemans , Paul Sullivan and Janis Siegel .

Friesen has been an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston since 1999 .

Discographic notes

under his own name
  • 1986 - New Friend with Paul Halley (Living Music)
  • 1989 Arms Around You (Living Music)
  • 1998 - The Song of Rivers (FiddleTalk Music)
  • 2003 - In the Shade of Angels (FiddleTalk Music)
  • 2005 - Sono Miho (FiddleTalk Music)
  • 2008 - Pure Water, Poetry of Rumi with Coleman Barks (FiddleTalk Music / Maypop Books)
  • 2009 - Colorful Transitions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The opera singer and clergyman Milton Friesen is his brother.
  2. ↑ Spanish Angel at Allmusic (English). Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, November 13, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Friesen, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cellist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1952