Born in 1965 in Trier. Without beginning first with the violin, he was immediately drawn to the viola and had lessons on that instrument with Rudolf Reiet in Trier and Eckart Schloifer in Saarbrücken. During that time he received a prize from the German State of Rheinland-Pfalz.
He continued his studies with Ulrich Koch at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg and later with Madeleine Prager at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe. At the same time he visited the Foundation Villa Musica where he performed with Martin Ostertag, Yuri Bashmet and Irena Grafenauer. Further stipends brought him to Walter Levin at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Emerson Quartet and Lynn Harrell at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute and to other orchestras in which he played under Simon Rattle and David Zinman.
After his studies in Freiburg and Karlsruhe Bodo Friedrich was assistant solo violist in the Philharmonisches Orchester in Freiburg until he decided to devote his time to the string quartet (first the Ophelia Quartet and then the Artemis Quartet).
Since 1998 Bodo Friedrich is solo violist in the Kammerorchster Basel, since 1997 in the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie in Augsburg and is often a welcome guest as solo violist in the Kölner Kammerorchester. He is a founding member of Ensemble SurPlus.

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