Lori Freedman

An important physique in Canadian avant-garde music, both in modern music and free of charge improvisation, Lori Freedman continues to be hard at the job because the early ‘90s elevating the bass clarinet to an increased status. She’s performed across Canada with orchestras, premiering several works written on her behalf. Additionally, she’s played throughout THE UNITED STATES and European countries as an improviser. She actually is most widely known as you half from the avant-garde jazz duo Queen Mab. Freedman’s profession began among orchestras, including tenures in the Winnipeg and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras. In the past due ‘80s and early ‘90s, she had been involved with interdisciplinary shows with dancers and visible artists, and attempted MIDI interfaces and electro-acoustics (she could be noticed on Daniel Scheidt’s 1991 Compact disc Action/Réactions). In 1992 she shaped Queen Mab with pianist Marilyn Lerner. A duo of uncommon beauty displaying an uncanny degree of interplay and telepathic understanding, they possess appeared at many jazz and songs celebrations in Canada and documented two albums, Barbie’s Various other Footwear (1997) and Close (2000). The set is also highlighted within the Traveling Bulgar Klezmer Music group, among Freedman’s lightest involvements. In 1998, Freedman received the Freddie Rock Award “for the demo of outstanding command, integrity, and quality in the region of Modern Music and Jazz.” A season afterwards she released her initial solo Compact disc, Huskless!, a assortment of modern functions for bass clarinet. In 2001 she spent 90 days in Amsterdam focusing on compositions with Louis Andriessen and Misha Mengelberg and seized the chance to execute with several Western european improvisers, including Maggie Nichols, Luc Houtkamp, Ab Baars, Kaffe Matthews, and Ig Henneman. Back Canada she shifted from the Western world Coastline to Montreal where she befriended the Ambiances Magnétiques community. There she premiered her Lori Freedman Trio (with Nicolas Caloia and Danielle P. Roger) in July 2002 and released her initial solo Compact disc as an improviser, À un Second Donné.