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Eugene Friesen
American cellist and composer (born 1952)
Eugene Friesen (born 1952) is an American cellist and composer.
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Friesen was born in 1952 to Russian Mennonite parents.[1] He is a graduate of the Yale School of Music.[2]
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.
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)
- "An Interview with Eugene Friesen". Natasha Jaffe. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
- "Faculty Biography: Eugene Friesen". Berklee. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
- "Web Page Under Construction". Archived from the original on 2006-11-06. Retrieved 2006-11-18.
- "Spanish Angel: Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 January 2011.