Marian Friedl

Marian Friedl, musician, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, is a member of several music projects of various specializations, in which he sings, plays the double bass, folk flutes, bagpipes, clarinet, small dulcimer and other instruments. He has performed on more than two dozen CDs, often with leading performers on the Czech or foreign scene. In 2014 he recorded, for example, the album NOCZ and Iva Bittová (Hevhetia), in 2016 Divé Husy with Jitka Šuranská and Martin Krajíček (nominated for the Anděl Music Award 2016) or in the same year the album Mateřština with Jiří Slavík (Anděl 2016 in the world music category) . He embodied his personal vision of Moravian world music in the author’s project Lambs and Wolves, whose album of the same name won the Anděl 2017 award in the folk category. In 2019 he released his solo album Beskydy Odyssey (Indies Scope), the neo-folklore project Píseň ZEMĚ (Animal Music), as a sideman he also performs on the albums of the Norwegian-Czech band NOCZ and Choir (Hevhetia) or the Slovak Dances project of composer and conductor Petr Breiner (Naxos).