Erick Friedman
Biographie Erick Friedman
Erick Friedman
is considered by many experts of the violin, as one of the greatest American born violinists of the past century. Erick Friedman's illustrious career took him to many of the great concert stages of the world appearing as guest soloist with most of the great orchestras throughout the United States and abroad: the New York Philharmonic and the National Symphony, the orchestras of New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Miami, Detroit, Indianapolis, the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and many other major orchestras throughout the world. Karajan, Stokowski, Steinberg, Leinsdorf, Previn, and Ozawa are some of the celebrated conductors with whom he collaborated with. Mr. Friedman's recordings for RCA earned him accolades including the prestigious Grammy Award. Mr. Friedman has been featured playing the Bartok Violin Concerto in an A&E Television Production on Bartok which was released worldwide. His tribute to Fritz Kreisler is available on VHS at online vendors including Amazon. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Isadore Freed, Ezra Laderman, and Laurent Petitgirard are some of the internationally celebrated composers who wrote and/or dedicated compositions to him. Erick Friedman studied at The Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian. After six years of studies with Galamian, Friedman began working with Nathan Milstein and at the age of 17 became a student of the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz. Mr. Friedman worked extensively with Jascha Heifetz as a student of his in Los Angeles both privately and in Jascha Heifetz's masterclass at the University of Southern California culminating with a recording of the Bach Double Violin Concerto for RCA with Heifetz which was the first of many recordings Mr. Friedman made for RCA; including recordings of the Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn Violin Concertos with the London Symphony conducted by Seiji Ozawa, the Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf among others.
Mr. Friedman held the Mischa Elman Chair in Violin Studies at the Manhattan School of Music, where he headed the string department followed by a faculty position at the Yale School of Music where he taught up until his untimely death in 2004.
