BELLOWS FALLS — Cellist and multi-Grammy award winner Eugene Friesen will perform a solo concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 31, at the stone church on the hill in Bellows Falls.
Friesen is a founder and the artistic director of Stone Church Arts, which began presenting concerts in Bellows Falls in 2004. Since then, Friesen has brought many master musicians and talented students from all over the world to perform with him at the stone church, but this is his first solo concert.
Friesen is active internationally as a cellist, composer, conductor, and teacher. He has worked and recorded with such diverse artists as Dave Brubeck, Toots Thielemans, Betty Buckley, Will Ackerman, Joe Lovano and Dream Theater, and has been featured in concerts all over the world with the Paul Winter Consort, with Trio Globo (Friesen, Howard Levy, and Glen Velez), and in his CelloMan performances for children and families.
A pioneer in the teaching of improvisation to classically trained musicians, Friesen has led workshops throughout North America and around the world. He is an artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music in Boston.