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friedemann 'fried' dähn
The cellist, composer and sound-artist is working in classical, contemporary and electronic music as well as in media and video arts.

In 1989 he completed his studies with Johannes Goritzki at the Düsseldorf music conservatory "with exellence", after having taken part in additional master classes with Boris Pergamenschikow, Heinrich Schiff, Michael Flaksman and Misha Maisky.

Between 1990 and 1993 he has been cellist of the well known Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, where he had the possibility to work with K.-H. Stockhausen, Ornette Coleman and Frank Zappa, to mention only a few. At the same time he developed an electric cello and started his own musical projects in the fields of improvisation, electronic and jazz as well as projects combining different genres of art as sound and language or music and visuals.

In 1992 he became principal cellist of the Wuerttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since 2004 he owns a professorship for audio design and sound arts at the University for Applied Sciences in Schwäbisch Hall.

As Cellist he toured worldwide and performed in China, Russia, USA, Brazil and in the important centers of music all over Europe. He has been artist in residence at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2003. In 2004 he was invited to Subtropics - Festival for experimental music in Miami, 2007 he performed and lead a workshop in Malaga/Spain.

In 1999 he and Thomas Maos founded CAMP, international festival for visual music, taking place every two years in a different location. More than eighty artists of fourteen different countries have been part of the festival, which was supported by the Bundeskulturstiftung in 2007. The festivals philosophy is unique and is focussing on a combination of artistic research and social networking as well as on educational aspects. The invited artists are working together on new forms of audiovisual art in a specific concert-like situation. CAMP has been invited to Portugal in 2005 and will be in Zagreb (Croatia) in 2011.

Another remarkable project is the Ensemble Klangstein with Klaus Fessmann and Manfred Kniel. Founded 1999, the ensemble toured Europe and performed in the USA. Concerts are often at outstanding places as on top of the zugspitze, the terme in vals/switzerland, the dom in salzburg or the ministry of justice in berlin. Since 2009 Markus Stockhausen on trumpet often joins the ensemble. In 2010 the group invited indian singer Mahesh Vinayakram for concerts in Switzerland and Austria.

In 2009 Fried started to work for british choreographer Freddie Opoku-Addaie composing the soundtrack for mis-thread, a contemporary dance piece first performed at 'the place' in london in which he also appears as live performer.

2010 his composition 'spanish cat' for orchestra was first performed.

In his current solo programm "Kiss my Guarneri" Dähn presents his latest original collages, once again proving his flexibility and experimental daring: a blend of blues fragments, shrill harmonies and meditative sounds make this production a unique experience.


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