Bio

Beyond advanced degrees in Music Composition and Classical Guitar Performance, Josh has won the Tillywig Top Fun and NAPPA award (National Parent Product Award), as band leader for Purple Fox and the Heebie Jeebies, the 4th album is out now. As a versatile musician with an omnivorous appetite, guitarist Josh Friedman has opened from Slightly Stoopid to Howard Hewitt (Shalamar), performed in many ensembles, featured on the electric guitar in the Cabrillo Music Festival, has collaborated with the Opal Street Dance Improvisational Theater, written, recorded and toured with established progressive rock band Fractal, and recorded as a studio musician with many including the prestigious Saint Michael Trio. 2013-2017, Josh was co-manager for the Palo Alto chapter for the West Coast Songwriters, hosting a monthly song competition, Live on TV with a studio audience at the Mid Pen Media Center. Josh has obtained song placements in films: Junction, Celebrity Death Pool, Living Lost. And created the theme song to local TV shows Learning Soup and Ask “Dr.” Business.

As a composer, Josh was the winner of the Sound Horizons Composition Competition in 2007, and has 3 collections of solo guitar studies written for his students, with rave reviews.

Mr. Friedman received his education at UC Santa Cruz (M.A., B.A.) studying composition with Paul Nauert and David Cope, and studying guitar with Mesut Özgen and William Coulter. Privately, he has studied with a long list of teachers including Dusan Bogdanovic, Scott Cmiel, and Benjamin Verdery.

Styles

Classical Guitar prepare for exams, competitions or pure enjoyment Acoustic and Electric Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk, and Pop chords, solos & improvisation South American & Flamenco Fingerstyle and Alternate Tunings Ukulele, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Singing Recording and Production (Logic, Garageband, Protools…) Sight Reading, Ear Training & Musicianship Composing and Arranging Songwriting Performance Practice

Make the most of your practice time and play pain free! (No back aches, tendinitis, carpal tunnel)

Beginners to advanced players All ages welcome

Contact Information

Email: learn [at] joshfriedmanguitar [dot] com

Phone: 650.279.2385

Studio:

Sunnyvale, CA 94086

By appointment only