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Lori Freedman (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1958) • residence: Montréal, Québec • composer • performer (clarinet, bass clarinet) — member of: FReC • Queen Mab • Queen Mab Trio • Transmission
Conspicuously described as “a musical revolutionary”, she is known internationally as one of the most provocative and creative performers in the field of contemporary music. Her work includes concert repertoire, improvised and electroacoustic music, and she frequently collaborates with dance, theatre and visual artists. Over forty-five composers have written solo bass clarinet music for her and her work has been recorded on 28 CDs, most recently Plumb (duo with Scott Thomson, trombone — Barnyard Records); 3 (Montreal Trios) and À un moment donné (13 solo improvisations — both from Ambiances Magnétiques), the second, having been nominated Best Recording of Musique Actuelle by the Prix Opus 2003, having received critical acclaim and selling-out 1000 copies; Huskless! (Lori Freedman Live in Concert — Artifact) nominated for the Prairie Music Award 2000 for the “Most Outstanding Classical Recording”; Thin Air and See Saw (Queen Mab Trio with Marilyn Lerner, piano and Ig Henneman, viola — Wig); 10 situations précaires (Rimouski Quartet — Tour de bras); Close (Queen Mab Duo — Spool). In 1998 Lori Freedman received the prestigious Freddie Stone Award for the “demonstration of outstanding leadership, integrity and excellence in the area of contemporary music and jazz” and from the National Jazz Awards she was nominated as Clarinetist of the Year (2003, 2004 and 2006). Since 1981 Freedman has been working with an eclectic mix of musicians including Canadians John Oswald, Ana Sokolovic, Bernard Falaise, Martin Tétreault, Jean Derome, René Lussier and Diane Labrosse. Internationally some of her favourite collaborations include Toru Takemitsu, Iva Bittova, Helmut Lachenmann, Joëlle Léandre, Mauricio Kagel, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Frances Marie Uitti, Misha Mengleberg, Evan Parker, Mark Dresser, Suzie Ibarra, Fred Frith, Ab Baars, Joe McPhee, and Barry Guy. In the recent past Freedman was busy with: two collaboration involving electronics with Monique Jean (Montréal) and Giorgio Magnanensi (Vancouver); as composer-in-residence at the Leighton Artist Colony at The Banff Centre for the Arts. Her solo activities have included: the Toronto performance of Échange by Iannis Xenakis (with New Music Concerts SoundaXis ’06 Festival); the Paris performance of Kya by Giacinto Scelsi (with the Ensemble 2e2m); her own compositions for bass clarinet Brief Candles and Xolf in Zagreb, Bucharest, Vienna, Budapest, Vancouver, Rotterdam, Toronto and Guelph; the concert production Dehors en dedans/There, in here featuring works written for her, by her and by Canadian composers Ana Sokolovic, Bradshaw Pack, Monique Jean, André Ristic, Jacquie Leggatt and Jean Derome; solo improvisation performances at the World Bass Clarinet Conference (Rotterdam), the International Clarinetfest (Vancouver), and the International Jazz Festivals in Guelph, Vancouver and Montreal. Recent and ongoing ensemble highlights: Transmission Ensemble (SoundaXis Festival 2008); Queen Mab Trio (Lines of Descent, 30-city Europe/North America tour); Freedman/Uitti Duo (La Tourette ’07, Soundaxis ’08); the Joëlle Léandre Quintet (France tour ’07). Resulting from a 4-month residency in Paris where she was developing a new concert repertoire, Freedman’s current activities include: Brief Candles, a new solo recording project including works from her new repertoire and improvisations; a solo concert celebrating her work integrating written and improvised music at the Festival of Extraordinary Performers Solus (Vancouver) and at Stanford University (California); solo and ensemble music at the Centre Culturel de Rencontre Couvent de La Tourette (France) with French musicians Françoise Rivalland (percussion), Benny Sluchin (trombone) and Asian musicians Rohan de Saram (cello) and Rajesh Mehta (trumpet/electronics); the 2009-10 concert season of the new, conductorless contemporary music sextet Transmission (Montreal); Solor for the 2011 Mode Record release of her first solo DVD showing her work as interpreter and improviser of contemporary music. Lori Freedman [vi-09] actuellecd.com Lori Freedman: biography |
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