Lori Freedman
"Freedman has an erotic character in performance that's smooth like honey and sharp like a bee sting, making any expedition with her worth taking." (Robert Everett Green, Toronto Globe and Mail). Conspicuously described as "a musical revolutionary", she is known internationally as one of Canada's most provocative and creative performers. Her work includes contemporary, improvised and electroacoustic music, with frequent collaborations with dance, theatre and visual artists.
Over thirty composers have written solo bass clarinet music for her and her work has been recorded on 24 commercial CDs. Just prior to the release of HUSKLESS! (Artifact 20) she received the 1998 Freddie Stone Award for the "demonstration of outstanding leadership, integrity and excellence in the area of contemporary music and jazz". That debut CD won her the nomination of a Prairie Music Award, 2000 for the "Most Outstanding Classical Recording". Highlights from Freedman's most recent activities include concerts with Misha Mengleberg, Maggie Nichols, Ab Baars, Luc Houtkamp, Joe McPhee, Barre Phillips, Kaffe Mathews, Barry Guy, Peggy Lee, Danielle P Roger, Iva Bitova and Andy Moor. Upcoming events see Freedman: on a solo concert tour of improvised music (BC), in duo concerts with Joe McPhee and Marilyn Lerner in New York and Danielle P Roger in Montreal, in a co-creation involving electronics with Wende Bartley (Amsterdam/Toronto), and recording her second solo album to be released in the fall of 2002 on the Ambiances Magnetique label.
"Musical to the bone, Freedman is an artist who is in your face and you're glad of it" (CBC radio producer David Jaeger, Toronto).
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