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. Born in Tübingen in 1958 he currently lives in stuttgart.
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.
Tours brought him to people´s republic of
China, Russia, USA, Brazil, and to all 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 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 sixty artists of fourteen different countries have
been part of this event, which was supported by the Bundeskulturstiftung
in 2007.
Another remarkable project is the Ensemble Klangstein
with Klaus Fessmann
and Manfred Kniel. For more than ten years he is developing the most
unique and faszinating music based on the sound of stones, created
and played by Klaus Fessmann.
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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