Nathan Friedman & Sean Sonderegger, clarinets
Recorded September 27, 2013 at Grant Recital Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI by Gabriel Kastelle

The extremely powerful difference tones in the hall aren't really captured by this recording unfortunately.

Internecine

Rough & Ready for saxophone quartet (2009)

Jeff Poynter, soprano sax
Ashton Nesbeth, alto sax
Alex Richards, tenor sax
Brad Justason, baritone sax

Recorded in the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, University of Victoria, BC, March 25, 2011

Rough & Ready

«Feu froid» for mixed quartet (2013)

Performed by loadbang:
Carlos Cordeiro, contrabass clarinet
Jeffrey Gavett, baritone
Andy Kozar, flügelhorn
Will Lang, trombone

Text by Iannis Xenakis from Arts/Sciences: Alliages

Recorded in CFA Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Dec. 9, 2013

«Feu froid»

Music for Strings, Percussion and Electric Guitar (2014)

Richard Choe, Tim Gaylord, Ben Zucker, percussion
Chris Cretella, electric guitar
Elena Chidlowsky, piano
Matthew Stein, Gabriel Kastelle, Julius Bjornson, violins
Dina Maccabee, viola
Vivian Deng, violoncello
Harim Jung, double bass

Recorded by Cristohper Ramos Flores in Crowell Concert Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, April 27, 2014

Music For Strings, Percussion And Electric Guitar

Recorded at Logan Center for the Arts Performance Penthouse, Dec. 8, 2024

UChicago New Music Ensemble:
Justin Weiss, conductor
Paul Novak, flutes
Nathan Friedman, clarinets
Phillip Lo, violin
Audrey Slote, cello
Xiofeng Dong, piano
John Corkill, percussion

Barcarolle (2023/24)

«la double à remplir...» for flute and electronics (2015)

Title after Mallarmé

Premiered by Mark McGregor at Open Space, Victoria, BC, October 19, 2015

«la double à remplir...» (Doina)

Recorded February 13, 2016 at St. Mary's Anglican Church, Victoria as part of the 2nd annual Oak Bay New Music Festival.

Emily Stewart, voice
Thomas Nicholson, piano

La ſelle d’ærain - Incipit: La roſe

Four Domestics (2013-14)

Canadian premiere: Heather Harker, voice; Nathan Friedman, piano

Text after F. R. Scott (1899-1985) "Four Moments"

Recorded May 23, 2015 at glassclothwoodmetal & other materials, Open Space, Victoria, BC

Four Domestics – IV

Four Domestics – III

Four Domestics – II

Four Domestics – I

Recorded April 28 2016 at the Copper Owl, Victoria

Nolan Krell, electric guitar
Dave Riedstra, electric bass
Liam Gibson, electric piano
Tristan Holleufer, drums
Keenan Mittag-Degala, drums

Mixed and mastered by Dave Riedstra

Die Kunst der Funk

mais elle a suivi au cimetière. (2016) for baritone saxophone and four double basses

Performed on July 7, 2016 by Erik Abbink and the Bassinova Quartet (Daniel Nix, Aaron Olguin, Mariechen Meyer, Gustavo Mazon Finessi), St. Mary's Anglican Church, Victoria, BC

mais elle a suivi au cimetière.

das Baby (2016) for soprano saxophone and electronics

Erik Abbink, soprano saxophone
Nathan Friedman, electronics

Recorded at Open Space, Victoria, BC, September 30, 2016

das Baby

Efflorescence (2017) for double flute trio

Performed October 6, 2017 by Trio Taco and friends (Cooper Reed, Jasmine Riseley, Jillian Broughton, Alanna Kazdan, Bailey Finley, and Sierra Phosy), Church of Truth, Victoria, BC

Efflorescence

Aubrey Kelly, trombone
Premiered October 15, 2011 at the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, Victoria

This short piece is written on a series of filecards, which are shuffled before each performance. Some of the material is derived from the trombone part to φ↓ψ or Joint Denial or Neither/Nor, and it is inspired by Paul Haines' poem "SURPRISE! SURPRISE!"

SHE WHIPPED
HER HAIR
FROM HER FACE
AND WITH HER HORNY
LIPS BLEW HIM A
KISS HALF WHIMSY
HALF WHISKY

HER &
HIS
ZAG &
ZIG

HER&HIS/ZAG&ZIG

After a text by Shannon Rayne

I. Shooters
II. Beer
III. Mixed Drinks
IV. Cocktails

Michael Robert-Broder, baritone
Corey Hamm, piano
Performed at "Playing With Fire" at the Orpheum Annex, Vancouver, BC on June 8, 2012
Written for the Vancouver International Song Institute Art Song Lab 2012

Drinks Popular Among Girls in the 80s

Commissioned by the Vancouver Clarinet Trio (Kate Frobeen, Shawn Earle and Liam Hockley).  Premiered by the VCT on October 19, 2012.  Studio recording by the VCT, December 2012.

Incarnadine for clarinet trio

Begun in 2006.  Finished after a long break in November 2012.

After quatrain VIII.XCVI from Nostradamus' Propheties

La synagogue sterile sans nul fruit
Sera receu entre les infideles
De Babylon la fille du porsuit
Misere & triste luy trenchera les aisles.

The sterile synagogue, without any fruit
Will be received by the infidels
The daughter of the persecuted one of Babylon
Miserable and sad, will clip her wings.

Anne Rhodes, voice
Ben Klein, tuba
Adam Matlock, accordion
Bill Solomon, percussion
Maura Valenti, harp
John Biatowas, viola
Carl Testa, bass

Recorded in the CFA, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, February 4, 2013

La Synagogue Stérile (Rough Mix)

Nathan Friedman is a clarinetist and composer currently based in Victoria, BC. He completed his MA in Composition/Experimental Music at Wesleyan University in 2014, studying with Anthony Braxton, Paula Matthusen, Ronald Kuivila and Neely Bruce.  He finished a Bachelor of Music in composition at the University of Victoria in April 2011 after studying composition with John Celona, Wolf Edwards, Dániel Péter Biró and Christopher Butterfield and clarinet with Patricia Kostek and Ed Nishimura. He has also had private lessons and workshops with Michael Finnissy, Chaya Czernowin and Judith Shatin. His compositions have been performed by The Vancouver Clarinet Trio, loadbang, Michael Robert-Broder & Corey Hamm, and others, and read by Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal+, the JACK Quartet and Quasar Quatuor de Saxophones.


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