User:Sherman Friedland

Bold textSherman Friedland, 1933, Brooklyn, New York. Sherman Friedland is a clarinetist,professor, conductor and writer. He attended Brookline High School in Brookline, Mass from 1947-51, and also attended the New England Conservatory of Music, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in orchestral music in 1960.While at the Conservatory he was a student of Rosario Mazzeo. During the summers of 1960,61 and 63, he attended the Conservatorie Americain in Fontainebleau, France, as a student working with Mlle Nadia Boulanger, Anette Diudonne and clarinetist Marcel Jean.Robert Levin, the pianist composer also composed two early Sonatas for Sherman Friedland, performed at Fontainebleau as well as in Carnegie Recital Hall for a Fonainebleau dedicatory Concert. Mr Friedland was awarded the Diplome cum Laudes de clarinette from the Conservatoire. During the summer of 1963, he performed as clarinetist with the Milwaukee Symphony Woodwind Quintet, which was in residence at the Conservatorie American.

From 1960 until 1963, he was Principal Clarinetist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.Harry John Brown conductor and Musical Director. In 1964 he appointrd a Fromm Fellow in the Berkshire Music Center in Lenox.Mass. He performed mostly new music and is mentioned in "Musical America" of that year. He also performed as clarinet soloist in the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra,with the Tanglewood Orchestra, by Easley Blackwood, conducted by Gunther Schuller in the New Music Concerts of the Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, Mass.

In 1965, we was appointed as Creative Associate at the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Lukas Foss and Allen Sapp directors, by virtue of a Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The function of this group was to study and perform New Music. Concerts were presented at the Allbrght Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York and at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City. Mr Friedland was a member of the Creative Associates until 1967.

He attended the University of Massachusetts in 1966-68 where he received a Master of Music degree in clarinet performance. Following, he was professor of Music at Plymouth State College of the University of New Hampshie from 1969. He was Assistant Professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado from 1969 until 1976, when he became Associate Professor of Fine Ars at Concordia University in Montreal where he taught Clarinet, Chamber Music, and conducted the Concordia University Symphony Orchestra for the next 17 years.

Mr Friedland organized, and was clarinetist and director of the Concordia Chamber Players, performing in many concerts in Montreal and in both Canada and US. He has appeared as clarinetist in over eighty five concerts of chamber music for Radio Canada, performing in many of the venues of Montreal and in a great variety of Chamber Works including many performances of La Quatour Pour La Fin du Temps, by Olivier Messiaen and in performances for Arts National, also a production of the CBC (Radio Canada). The Canadian composer Jean Coulthard of Vancouver composed her Shelley Portrait for the opening of the Concordia Concert Hall, where she also received an honorary degree.She also composed''' "Gardens" for Mr Friedland and Dale Bartlett,pianist/

John Bavicchi of Boston, Mass dedicated his Sonata for Clarinet and Piano to Mr Friedland, as well as his second Clarinet Concerto for Clarinet and Concert Band, conducted by John Corley and first performed in Titusville, Florida. Mr Friedland has recorded 4 Compact Discs for SNE records of Montreal called "the Concordia Commissions"and "Sherman Friedland in Concert", as well as "The Dream itself enchanted me" and a Compact Disc including the "Clarinet Quintet" by John Bavicchi, composed for Sherman Friedland, the "Shelley Portrait" and Gardens.by Jean Coulthard. Professor Friedland has been Chair of the Music Department of Fort Lewis College, Concordia Music Department of Concordia University in Montreal, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University.Sherman Friedland (talk) 19:34, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Mr Friedland retired from Concordia University in 1997.He continues to both perform and to write on music and the clarinet. He has written almost seven hundred articles, answering letters from clarinetists from around the world. He has written many articles on clarinet repertoire, instrumental problems and variousaspects of his musical experiences. He resides in Cornwall Ontario with his wife of 45 years, Linda. They have four grown children, Noah, Abram, and twins Nathan and Joseph. The twins both work in the servise of people. Joseph is Pastor of the Evangel Penecostal Church of Montreal and Nathan is a surgical nurse at the Montreal Childrens Hospital Coincidentally, they work within a hundred yards of one another. Eac has a daughter. Noah and Abram are employed, Abram being a tutor in all subjects and languages, and Noah in a waste disposal plant. He is a cellist, studying with the prominant Montreal Cellist, Donald Pistolesi.Sherman Friedland (talk) 09:46, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

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