- Eugene Friesen
Eugene Friesen (born 1952) is an American cellist and
composer .He is a graduate of the Yale School of Music. He has been a member of the
Paul Winter Consort since 1978, and performs withHoward Levy andGlen Velez asTrio Globo . [ [http://www.celloman.com/aboutTG.html Web Page Under Construction ] ] He received aGrammy Award as a member of the Paul Winter Consort for the 1994 album "Spanish Angel" and again in 2006 for the Consort's "Silver Solstice". Total Grammy Awards to date=4.Friesen has broken new ground for the cello, using it in a wide variety of non-classical settings and creating new techniques to expand its role as a solo and accompanying instrument.
He has also performed thousands of concerts for young audiences on cello and
electric cello as "Celloman." [ [http://www.celloman.com/ Eugene Friesen Music ] ]He teaches at the
Berklee College of Music inBoston, Massachusetts and lives in southernVermont . Among his prominent students areRushad Eggleston ,Mads Tolling , Lindsay Mac, and Nathan Leath.More information can be found at: http://www.eugenefriesenmusic.com
Discography
As leader
*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)With Paul Halley
*1986 - "New Friend" (Living Music)
With Dream Theater
*2003 - "Vacant (Dream Theater's Train of Thought)"
References
External links
* [http://www.eugenefriesenmusic.com/recordings.shtml Eugene Friesen recordings]
* [http://www.livingmusic.com/biographies/efriesen.html Eugene Friesen biography]
* [http://www.eugenefriesenmusic.com/ CelloMan official site]
* [http://www.madstolling.com The Offical Website of Mads Tolling]
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