Noel Freidline
Website: www.noelfreidline.com
Facebook: @noel.freidline.music
Instagram: @noelfreidline
Artist: Noel Freidline
Email: noelfreidline@gmail.com
ABOUT: Noel Freidline is a pianist, vocalist, writer, arranger, and educator. The members of the Noel Freidline Quintet are experienced educators and clinicians and firmly believe that to keep something you have to give it away. As clinicians, they have spread their wealth of knowledge and experience from the University of North Florida, the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, to an artist-in-residency program at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. They have developed several series of educational programs, ranging from interactive presentations for school-age children to lecture/concerts for collegiate and community audiences, to workshops for fine arts performers and clinics and workshops specifically geared toward musicians.
In addition to his work with the Noel Freidline Quintet, Freidline has performed with the Charlotte Symphony and many touring Broadway shows, most recently “Jersey Boys,” “Bring It On,” “Dream Girls,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “White Christmas,” “Les Miserable,” “Wicked,” and “Beautiful” and as Assistant Music Director for “First Date.” With the NFQ he has opened for such diverse artists as Tony Bennett, David Sanborn, Kenny G, Rosemary Clooney, Dave Brubeck, vocalist Layla Hathaway, jazz legend Roy Ayers, and vocalist Jennifer Holliday.
Freidline was named Best Jazz Musician by Charlotte Magazine in 2006 and in 2009 and was named “Best Musical Director” by the Metrolina Theatre Association of the Carolinas. In 2011 he was chosen for the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Stage Award in recognition of his excellence in service to the arts. In May 2015 Freidline was inducted into the Jacksonville Jazz Hall of Fame.
Freidline has been a Lecturer in Music at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte since 2006, teaching such diverse subjects as music business, the history of rock music, jazz arranging, music theory, and ear training. In August of 2012 Freidline launched a contemporary music program at Davidson Day School, Davidson, NC. Focusing on teaching contemporary music styles, this is one of three programs like it in the state of North Carolina.
As a composer and arranger, Freidline has written and recorded music for ESPN, ABC and the Walt Disney Company, with his most recent work being featured on Monday Night Football, the NBA All-Star Game, and SportCenter. He performs monthly as part of the Ziad Jazz Quartet for “Jazz at the Bechtler” at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art and has recently released a new album with vocalist Maria Howell.
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The Noel Freidline Quartet featuring Maria Howell - The Jazz Concert
