Sandro Friedrich – studio musician for ethnic wind instruments
Sandro Friedrich is a studio musician who plays over 200 different flutes and other wind instruments from all over the world (duduk, ney, fujara, shakuhachi, tin whistle, bass flute, traverse flute, soprano sax, zurna, occarina, bag pipes, etc.). He works primarily over the internet and records in his own studio.
Selected References from a total of over 200 productions:
FILMS Mychael Danna / Jeff Danna: "Tyrant", US-TV 2014 Atli Örvarsson: "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones", 2013 Ingo Ludwig Frenzel: "Der Medicus", 2014 M. Ghibran: "Kutti Puli" and others, Bollywood movies, 2013, 2014 Shigeru Umebayashi: "Days of Grace", 2011 Ryan Leach: "Devils Racecourse", 2010 - Best Original Score (Maverick Movie Awards) Marcel Barsotti: Ethnoworld 4&5; "Pope Joan", 2009, Gold Medal Award (Park City Filmmusic Festival) Annette Focks: "Krabat"; 2008, Bavarian Film Award 2009 Enjott Schneider: "Die Flucht", 2007, Magnolia Award (Shanghai Film Festival) Fabian Roemer: "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter", 2013
Andre Matthias: "The Drummer", 2007, Golden Horse Award (Taiwan Film Festival)
CDs Senta-Sofia Delliponti: "Oonagh", 2014 Santiano: "Bis ans Ende der Welt", 2012 Faun: "Von den Elben", 2013 Howard Shore: "The Lord of the Rings Symphony", 2011 Christopher Tin: "Calling all dawns", winner of two Grammy awards, 2011 Andreas Vollenweider: "Book of Roses", "Eolian Minstrel", "Air"; member of 2011 band
Beyond for Children: featuring Tina Turner. Sandro performs Bansuri, Ney and Duduk.
CONCERTS Howard Shore: "The Lord of the Rings Symphony", 2011 Shigeru Umebayashi: Film Music Concerts conducted by Dirk Brossé in Ghent, Krakow, Athens
Andreas Vollenweider: Montreux Jazz Festival 2011, Switzerland
VIDEOGAMES SEGA: "Total War - Rome II" (composers: Ian Livingstone, R. Beddow, S. Ravn, S. Friedrich), 2013 Tom Salta’s: "Prince of Persia - The Forgotten Sands", "From Dust", "Red Steel 2", 2010
Sandro offers very special ethnic wind instrument sounds, improvisations or entire compositions for CD- or film music productions. He works primarily over the internet. Many styles are possible, from film music to world music, techno, rock and pop.
If you would like to know more, you will find over 80 sound examples, references, photos, video clips and a complete instrument list on www.powerflute.ch. On www.IMDb.com you'll find further references.
Sandro Friedrich / Im Bueeli 6 / 8864 Reichenburg / Switzerland Tel. ++41 - 55 / 444 30 43 / [email protected] / www.powerflute.ch
Represented by OTICONS - Talent Agent: George Christopoulos www.oticons.com
Member of SUISA (Swiss Society for the Rights of Authors of Musical Works), SMECA (Swiss Media Composers Association) and FFACE (Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers of Europe).