ROBERT FRIEDMAN  -  TOUR PROMOTER ( NORTH AMERICA )

President of Robert Friedman Presents, Mr. Friedman has been involved in San Francisco theater management and production beginning with a family tradition that dates back to the beginning of last century.

He went on to establish one of the largest concert artist series in the West, presenting San Francisco debuts of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Madrigal Antiqua, the Black Light Theater of Prague, the Jose Limon Dance Company, Barry Tuckwell , the Batsheva Dance Company, and numerous other musical ensembles, theater and dance companies. In 1973 Mr. Friedman started one of the first early music concert series in the country. In San Francisco he also co-produced the

long-running romantic comedy which opened the Theater on the Square, Talley's Folly, as well Caryl Churchill's biting

comedy Cloud Nine, Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, A.R.Gurney's Love Letters and Gareth Armstrong's Shylock.

His artist management firm represents and tours both nationally and internationally such prominent companies as Magnificat,

Shakespeare Revue from London, Rick Miller's MacHomer and Bigger Than Jesus, classical pianist Angela Au,

composer/musician Terry Riley, guitarist Gyan Riley,beat-boxing Yuri Lane, Gareth Armstrong's Shylock, and tenor Saimir Rirgu.