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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