Gary William Friedman is a versatile composer best known for his groundbreaking score for the TONY nominated, OBIE Award winning musical THE ME NOBODY KNOWS.

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

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

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 classical composition privately with Hall Overton and Jan Meyerowitz.

His orchestral 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.

He has scored several feature films and highly acclaimed television films, including "Bump In The Night" (starring Christopher Reeve) and "Liberace", in addition to serving 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 written the arrangements for, and co-produced several critically-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, a stark, 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.

View the documentary video on the making of My Heart's Friend from the CD COLLOQUY here.
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