David Friend is an experimental musician living in New York City. A classically-trained pianist, he performs regularly with new music groups and as a soloist at major venues and DIY spaces throughout the city, across the country, and abroad. The New York Times describes him as '[one] of the finest, busiest pianists active in New York's contemporary-classical scene.'

He has recorded for numerous labels, including his most recent release for solo piano and electronic processing, 'Post-,' for New Amsterdam Records; and with Third Coast Percussion for Cedille in an album that won the Grammy award for Best Chamber Music Performance.

He is a cofounder of Bent Duo, an interdisciplinary project with Bill Solomon, that frequently explores issues of queer identity, theory, and aesthetics through performance, multimedia work, and artistic collaborations. As a generative artist, his work often focuses on experimental queer traditions of availablism, aesthetics of extremity, and the disruption of traditional hierarchies between and among artists and the public. Learn more at www.davidfriendpiano.net