Other musical theater credits include the award winning TAKING MY TURN, which was presented on PBS Television's Great Performance Series, SHEBA, PLATINUM, THE LAST SUPPER and most recently, MAGPIE.

In addition to the theater, his music spans the genres of jazz, film, symphonic and liturgical works.

Born in Brooklyn, NY, he graduated from Brooklyn College where he completed his post-graduate studies in education. He studied electronic music composition at Columbia University with Vladimir Ussachevsky, and advanced classical composition privately with Hall Overton and Jan Meyerowitz.

His orchestral, operatic and dance works have been commissioned and performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Lancaster Music Festival, the Columbus Symphony, The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho, and Encompass New Opera Theatre.

In addition to scoring features and highly acclaimed television films, he served as Music Director for T.V.'s "The Electric Company", for which he wrote many songs including the popular "Spider Man Theme Song".

He has co-produced and arranged several internationally acclaimed jazz recordings by his wife, Stevie Holland. The two are also songwriting collaborators.

COLLOQUY is Gary William Friedman's debut classical recording release. An exciting and challenging collection, the CD contains varied, and highly personal and introspective works: Passages, a dramatic clarinet concerto, Song Of Moses, an a capella choral work, Colloquy, a sonata for viola and piano, featuring NY Philharmonic violist Judith Nelson and internationally acclaimed concert pianist Judith Lynn Stillman, and My Heart's Friend, an orchestral setting of four poems for soprano and baritone.
Fanfare Magazine's review of COLLOQUY described Mr. Friedman as “a composer who has mastered his craft”, and whose “music successfully combines accessibility with artistic integrity, lyricism with abstraction, and abundant heart with refined design.”

Gary William Friedman conducted several of his works at Yale University with the Davenport College Pops Orchestra
in the annual Maestro of the Moment concert on February 20th, 2010.

View the documentary video on the making of My Heart's Friend from the CD COLLOQUY here.
Listen to selections fom COLLOQUY here.
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RECENT PERFORMANCES:

AN AMERICAN SELICHOT
For Chamber Orchestra, Choir and Cantor Soloist
Conducted by Gary William Friedman
September 24th, 2011, Temple Israel of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, Erik Contzius, Cantor

World Premiere:
LIGEIA
An Orchestral Chamber Work
The Pit Stop Players, Joshua Rosenblum, Conductor
October 30, 2011, Dimenna Center for Classical Music, NYC
LISTEN TO/WATCH LIGEIA PERFORMANCE ON YOUTUBE