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Artist
Sean Friar
12+ albums
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about
Born in Los Angeles in 1985, Sean Friar’s first musical love was rock and blues piano improvisation, and piano bad-boy Jerry Lee Lewis his first musical idol. While his focus later shifted toward classical composition, his music still maintains the raucous energy, accessibility and directness of those early musical influences, now along with a diverse and sophisticated classical sensibility. He thrives on composing for both traditional and nontraditional ensembles – recent projects include works for string quartets, medieval dance band, wind quintets, orchestras, laptop orchestras, and a junk car concerto. His music has been performed throughout the world by such ensembles and performers as the American Composers Orchestra, So Percussion, Matmos, NOW Ensemble, Janus, Ensemble Klang, Newspeak, Psappha, Orkest de Ereprijs, TRANSIT, Line C3 Percussion, the Formalist Quartet, the New Millennium Ensemble, New Music Collective, members of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and 4-time Grammy-winning percussionist, Glen Velez. Venues featuring his music include Carnegie Hall’s Zankel and Weill Halls, Le Poisson Rouge, the Kitchen, Galapagos, Peak Performances, REDCAT at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Convention Center, Composers Inc., the MacArthur Foundation, the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music, the MMix Festival of Interactive Technology, and the Hawaii Institute of Contemporary Music. Among his honors are the Aaron Copland Award; the First Music Award (New York Youth
