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Eugene Friesen with Tim Ray, THE CELLO/PIANO PROJECT



“The music is beautiful and so is the playing .” – Yo-Yo Ma

Musical passion, sweeping melody and rocking rhythm mark the one-of-a-kind evenings of The Cello/Piano Project with Eugene Friesen and Tim Ray. Classical music, contemporary jazz, Brazilian classics and American folk tunes are the soil from which the duo’s joyful interplay blooms.
As featured players with the likes of Paul Winter, Lyle Lovett, Bonnie Raitt, Dave Brubeck, Aretha Franklin and others, Friesen and Ray have cultivated unique styles. Together in concert, they honor the sonorities and dignity of classical music, while enlivening the form with bright rhythms, exotic scales, new colors, familiar melodies, spontaneity and improvisation. Programs include their original compositions and music by Jobim, Miles Davis, Egberto Gismonti, Thelonius Monk and more.
Fluent and brilliant in a myriad of American jazz, pop, folk and swing styles, Tim is a dazzling soloist and highly regarded as a jazz performer and composer. While he is perhaps best known as Lyle Lovett’s pianist for the past 15 years, Tim has performed at Carnegie Hall, the White House, at virtually all the major jazz festivals in the U.S., Canada and Central America and throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Friesen takes his cello where no strings have ever gone before — playing with virtuosity and innovation the likes of which even the most avid music fans have rarely encountered. Friesen has received three Grammy awards as a member of the Paul Winter Consort. One of the world’s greatest improvising cellists, Friesen is on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music in Boston and is an artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.

“Friesen’s frenzied bowings and soaring melodies… sent many in the audience home in a state of musical rapture. ” – The Washington Post
“Never before have I seen a musician play the cello with such fury and virtuosity. A whirlwind…incredible.” – (El Heraldo de Aragon, Spain)
“...and that Tim Ray at the piano – he slays me every single night!”
– Bonnie Raitt

The Cello/Piano Project Concert is presented by Roger Rocka
as the fourth in a series of concerts “By Request” from KMUN and
Coast Community Radio with sponsorship from TLC Federal Credit Union.
Tickets are $23 for adults and $12 for students through age 15
Available at:
Liberty Theater Box Office – (503) 325-5922 Ext. 55
1203 Commercial, Astoria OR 97103
Open: Wednesday – Saturday 2 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. and 2 hours before each event.
Or at Ticketswest: 1.800.992.8499 or www.ticketswest.com.
(convenience fee applies)

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