Eugene Friesen

Eugene Friesen (born 1952) is an American cellist and composer.

Early life

Friesen was born in 1952 to Russian Mennonite parents.^[1] He is a graduate of the Yale School of Music.^[2]

Career

Friesen has been a member of the Paul Winter Consort since 1978, and performs with Howard Levy and Glen Velez as Trio Globo.^[3] He received a Grammy Award as a member of the Paul Winter Consort for the 1994 album Spanish Angel^[4] and again in 2006 for the Consort's Silver Solstice in 2007 for Crestone, and in 2011 for Miho: Journey to the Mountain. Friesen has won four Grammy Awards to date.

In 2012, Friesen's book, Improvisation for Classical Musicians was published by Berklee Press/Hal Leonard.

He teaches at the Berklee College of Music^[2] in Boston, Massachusetts and lives in Vermont. Among his prominent students are Rushad Eggleston, Mads Tolling, Lindsay Mac, and Nathan Leath. Friesen also runs a nonprofit production company, Sonoterra Productions, producing concerts, recordings and workshops.

Discography

As leader

• New Friend with Paul Halley (Living Music, 1986)
• Arms Around You (Living Music, 1989)
• The Bremen Town Musicians (1993)
• Sono Miho (2004)

As sideman

With Scott Cossu

• Islands (Windham Hill, 1984)
• Reunion (Windham Hill, 1986)
• Switchback (Windham Hill, 1989)

With Aine Minogue

• Celtic Meditation Music (Sounds True, 2004)
• Celtic Lamentations (Sounds True, 2005)
• Celtic Pilgrimage (Sounds True, 2007)
• In the Name of Stillness (Little Miller 2017)

With Paul Winter

• Callings (Living Music, 1980)
• Missa GaiaEarth Mass (Living Music, 1982)
• Canyon (Living Music, 1985)
• Concert for the Earth (Living Music, 1985)
• Wintersong (Living Music, 1986)
• Whales Alive (Living Music, 1986)
• Earthbeat (Living Music, 1987)
• Wolf Eyes (Living Music, 1988)
• Earth: Voices of a Planet (Living Music, 1990)
• El Hombre Que Plantaba Arboles (Lyricon, 1993)
• Solstice Live! (Living Music, 1993)
• Spanish Angel (Living Music, 1993)
• Prayer for the Wild Things (Living Music, 1994)
• En Directo en Espana (Ediciones Resistencia 1996)
• Journey with the Sun (Living Music, 2000)
• Silver Solstice (Living Music, 2005)
• Crestone (Living Music, 2007)
• Miho: Journey to the Mountain (Living Music, 2010)

With others

• William Ackerman, Conferring with the Moon (Windham Hill, 1986)
• William Ackerman, Meditations (Lifescapes/Compass, 2008)
• Terry Bozzio, Prime Cuts from Terry Bozzio's Magna Carta Sessions (Magna Carta, 2005)
• Betty Buckley, With One Look (Sterling, 1994)
• Oscar Castro-Neves, Oscar! (Living Music, 1987)
• Lui Collins, Moondancer Molly (Gamblin Music, 1993)
• Anthony Davis, Hemispheres (Gramavision, 1983)
• Dream Theater, Train of Thought (Elektra, 2003)
• Flow, Flow (LMB Music, 2017)
• Charles Gross, Punchline (A&M, 1988)
• Paul Halley, Angel on a Stone Wall (Living Music, 1991)
• Phil Markowitz, Taxi Ride (Passage, 1998)
• Emi Meyer, Monochrome (Origin, 2017)
• Susan Osborn, Signature (Lifeline, 1983)
• Jeff Oster, True (Retso, 2007)
• Alice Parker, Heavenly Hurt: Poems by Emily Dickinson (Gothic 2017)
• Noirin Ni Riain, Celtic Soul (Living Music, 1996)
• Jordan Rudess, Feeding the Wheel (Magna Carta, 2001)
• Laura Sullivan, Love's River (Sentient Spirit, 2013)
• Toots Thielemans, The Brasil Project, Vol. 2 (Private Music, 1993)
• Arto Tuncboyaciyan, Every Day Is a New Life (Living Music, 2000)
• Glen Velez, Breathing Rhythms (Sounds True, 2000)

References

External links

• Eugene Friesen recordings Archived 2008-09-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Eugene Friesen biography Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Eugene Friesen's official site
• The Official Website of Mads Tolling
• Sonoterra Productions

This page was last edited on 18 March 2024, at 05:14