Jefferson Friedman

Jefferson Friedman (born 1974) is an American composer. He has composed several orchestral pieces and television scores including Harley Quinn. Friedman was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts. He received an M.M. degree in music composition from The Juilliard School, where he studied with John Corigliano, and a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied with David Rakowski and Jonathan Kramer. Friedman also studied with George Tsontakis and Christopher Rouse. He lives in Los Angeles. Career Friedman’s work has received positive reviews. His pieces have been performed throughout the United States and abroad, including at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and the American Academy in Rome. Friedman was commissioned by Leonard Slatkin to write three pieces for the National Symphony Orchestra: “March”, “The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly”, and “Sacred Heart: Explosion” “March” is a brief closing piece, commissioned by the orchestra as part of the Hechinger Encores series. “The Throne” and “Sac