Elements of Sound
In January 2017 Jay Friedman and Noah Gladstone co-produced a DVD masterclass that covers a wide variety of Jay’s pedagogy and his experience playing principal trombone in the Chicago Symphony Continue Reading →
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The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
This album from 1968 is the gold standard of brass playing, the recording against which all other brass recordings must be evaluated. Jay Friedman was a member of this powerful Continue Reading →
The Singing Trombone
Released in 2000, The Singing Trombone consists of twenty-one orchestral excerpts, twelve Bordogni vocalises, and three excerpts from the literature of other instruments. The disc is Jay Friedman’s answer to the many Continue Reading →
Equipment
Friedman plays a Bach 1954 Bach Mt Vernon 45B yellow brass bell, 50 slide with Butler CF outer slide. Mr. Friedman plays a 1900 Kruspe/Penzel model tenor trombone on Bruckner Continue Reading →
Conducting
Mr. Friedman is presently the Music Director of the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest. Guest conducting engagements include: Chicago Symphony Orchestra RAI Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale, Turin, Italy Daniel Barenboim, Continue Reading →