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American conductor
Lance Friedel attended Boston University, the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, and the University of Music in Vienna, completing his work at Mannes School of Music in New York. Among
Friedel's conducting teachers were Gustav Meier, Michael Charry, and
Georg Tintner; he also took part in master classes given by
Leonard Slatkin,
André Previn, and
Lorin Maazel, and participated in the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. In 2001, he won first prize at the Mario Gusella International Conductors Competition in Pescara, Italy.
Friedel has conducted many orchestras, including the Providence Chamber Orchestra, the
Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the
Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the
Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Berlin Sinfonietta, and the London Symphony Orchestra, among many others. He has recorded for Naxos and MSR Classics, producing notable recordings of orchestral music by
Carl Nielsen and Josef Bohuslav Foerster.