Stanley Friedman - Current activities

May 26-30, 2009; Friedman invited to be Featured Composer at International Trumpet Guild Conference, Messiah College, Harrisburg, PA (www.trumpetguild.org); conference will include the World Premiere of Pitter - Patter (And Other Charms) for brass quintet and piano, commissioned especially for this event; for more information, contact host William Stowman.

April 3-4, 2009; Friedman engaged as Featured Composer and Yamaha Solo Trumpet Artist at the Mesa State College Trumpet Fest, Grand Junction, CO
(additional info); festival will include master classes and concerts, including the World Premier of Friedman's Classical Concerto in C for Trumpet & Orchestra, featuring soloist Ryan Anthony and the Grand Junction Symphony, conducted by Kirk Gustafson; contact host Calvin Hofer.

March 2-11, 2009: Friedman tours in Austria and Switzerland, presenting master classes and conducting the 12-piece brass/percussion ensemble Blechcircus (www.blechcircus.at); in concerts which will include original works La Pittura (with soloist Bernhard Baer) and Delosian Dreams (commissioned for this tour); contact tour organizer Bernhard Lampert.

New Commision: Women In Brass (Berlin; www.womeninbrass.com);
brass sextet (3 trp, hn, tbn, tba); WomenInBrass Suite;
contact manager Oliver Adamczyk.

FIRST PRIZE, 2008 INTERNATIONAL TRUMPET GUILD COMPOSITION CONTEST (Hineni for clarinet, trumpet & piano; contest chair, Professor Moffat Williams)

June 21, 2008: Aspen, Colorado
Guest Lecture on New Music. Host Dr. David Shaner

June 16 - 19: Gunnison, Colorado
Guest Composer In Residence at Western State Chamber Music Institute
Host Dr. Scott Meredith.

June 01 - 05: Banff, Alberta (Canada)
ITG Convention; world premiere of Hineni, plus B'Shertah and The Bitter And The Sweet (performed by S. Friedman, trumpet & Rena Feller, clarinet); also, La Pittura (performed by Ryan Anthony, solo trumpet with the Wonder Brass, Italy). Host Jens Lindemann.

TWIST IN THE WIND (large wind orchestra; 18 min.)
THE BITTER AND THE SWEET (wind orchestra; 10 min.)
THE BITTER AND THE SWEET (chamber version for clarinet, trumpet, piano, perc; 10 min.)
VARIATIONS ON A LIMITED PITCH FIELD (concert etudes for trumpet; 9 min)
SIDEWINDER (solo trumpet; 3 min)
SYMMETRICAL STUDIES (exercises and etudes for trumpet; includes VARIATIONS ON A LIMITED PITCH FIELD and SIDEWINDER)
SPANISH DANCES (brass quintet; 2003 ITG Winner; 20 min)

Also available September, 2007 from Subito Music:

Revised version of PARODIE VI (solo tuba, 2 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 trombones, 2 percussion; 10 min.)

NEW EDITIONS of Stanley Friedman's works are available from Subito Music
Including compositions published by Asher Rose Music and by Seesaw Music Corporation. [more]

"THE MORNING TRUMPET" featuring trumpeter Michael Tunnell and pianist Meme Tunnell performing SONATA FOR TRUMPET AND PIANO by Stanley Friedman

Centaur Records (CRC 2793)
www.centaurrecords.com

• February 2006: Subito Music has acquired the entire cataolgue of the Seesaw Music Corporation. All of Stanley Friedman's compositions heretofore published by Seesaw will now be available through Subito. For more information, please visit www.subitomusic.com

• January 2004: The professionally printed edition of SPANISH DANCES is now available for purchase. For more details and to place orders, please contact info@stanleyfriedman.com

• May 2003: Stanley Friedman's composition SPANISH DANCES, a three-movement suite for brass quintet, has been awarded First Prize in the 2003 International Trumpet Guild Composition Competition. The work will be premiered at the ITG Conference at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth in May, 2003. SPANISH DANCES was commissioned by the Louisville Brass and is published by Editions BIM-Switzerland.

Friedman's compositions previously have won ITG prizes in 1993 (LA PITTURA, Editions BIM, for solo trumpet and brass quintet), in 1985 (PARODIE-V: CHINA VARIATIONS, Seesaw Music, for brass quintet), and in 1977 (SOLUS, Editions BIM, for unaccompanied trumpet).

• October, 2002: University of North Texas
• November, 2002: University of Lousiville (Kentucky) Belmont College (Nashville)
• February, 2003: California State University/Long Beach UCLA

Memphis Brass Quintet plays SPANISH DANCES on tour (February, 2004): University of North Texas, the University of Texas-Austin and at the University of Texas-San Antonio.

OPERA

March 21, 2004, at the new Clark Opera Center: OPERA/MEMPHIS will present a workshop performance of the first scene from THE VIGIL OF LORENZO DA PONTE. The event is being called "Mozart, da Ponte, Friedman". Written in collaboration with distinguished author David R. Slavitt of Cambridge, MA, THE VIGIL is a dark comedy about Mozart's flamboyant librettist.

Historically based, the opera is set during da Ponte's darkest days, when he was the proprietor of a failing country store in Sunbury, Pennsylvania in 1817. So far from his roots, culture and days of glory with Mozart, da Ponte has all but forgotten his true nature and the values that have kept him going in a lifetime of upheaval and disappointment. It takes a bizarre collaboration of local American bumpkins, his English wife Nancy and the corpse of a former Hessian soldier to reawaken the poetry within Lorenzo.

David Slavitt will be in attendance in March. A former film critic for Newsweek and an Ivy-League scholar and lecturer, Slavitt is a widely published and highly respected poet, novelist and translator of Latin, Greek and Hebrew poetry.

MAJOR COMMISSION FOR WIND ENSEMBLE

A TWIST IN THE WIND, to be premiered at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music (University of Memphis) in spring 2005. To commission this work, director Dr. Kraig Williams has put together a consortium which includes the wind ensembles of the University of Memphis, University of Texas-Austin, UCLA, Clemson University and others. A TWIST IN THE WIND will be performed at each of those universities and by the U/M wind ensemble on tour.

April 7, 2004: The University of Memphis Wind Ensemble under the direction of Kraig Alan Williams will perform HEART OF DARKNESS (1979). Inspired by the Joseph Conrad novel, this tone-poem has not been performed in over 20 years.

NATIONAL FLUTE CONFERENCE

August, 2004: FREELANCE DANCE for flute and harpsichord will be performed by Bruce Erskine, professor of flute at the University of Memphis. This piece has been recorded by Bart Feller on his solo CD, "Elysian "Fields".