Eugene Friesen
Eugene Friesen ( born 1952 ) is an American cellist and composer, who has emerged mainly in the area of world-jazz, but in addition also in classical music.
Life and work
Friesen, whose father Dietrich Friesen worked as a church musician, conductor and professor at the Fresnu Pacific University, played from the age of ten cello. During his high school years he played at the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra, and in whose 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 met the Brazilian folk music.
In 1978 he became a member of the Paul Winter Consort, to whom he is connected to this day. He worked on three Grammy-winning albums the group: 1994 Spanish Angel 2006 Silver Solstice and 2007 Crestone. In addition, he played at the University of Delaware in the classic Delos Quartet. Since 1986, he has released several albums under his own name. Since 1990 he occurs also with Howard Levy and Glen Velez on the Trio Globo. In addition, 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 teaches since 1999 as an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston.