Conducting Activities

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Mr. Friedman is presently the Music Director of the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest as well as the Principal Guest Conductor at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts.

Guest conducting engagements include:

• RAI Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale, Turin, Italy
  Daniel Barenboim, piano soloist
• Civic Orchestra of Chicago, public masterclass
  Mahler Symphony No. 5
• Civic Orchestra of Chicago
  Wagner, Die Walkure, Act 1 (the Chicago Sun-times called this concert "perhaps the best Civic concert in the past 30 years")
• Knox-Galesburg Symphony Orchestra
• Faculty orchestra of the Music Festival of Santa Catarina, Brazil 2008
  Ein Helenleben
• Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome
• Chautauqua Festival
• Honolulu Symphony (tour)
• Central Iowa Symphony Orchestra
• Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Sweden
• Mostly Mozart Festival, New York
• University of Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Sweden
  Sibelius Symphony No.1
• Millennium Festival Orchestra
  Beethoven Symphony No.9
• American Opera Group
• World Championship Gothenburg Brass Band

Friedman was formerly the Music Director of the River Cities Philharmonic and the Resident Conductor of the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. His conducting repertoire is extensive and focuses on the works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

JayFriedman.net is the official website of
the Chicago Symphony's principal trombonist.