Anna Freeman

Anna Freeman (* 1954 in the State of Victoria / Australia ) is an Australian living in Germany High School teacher for classical trumpet and baroque trumpet .

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Although Anna Freeman had also shown great interest in painting, drawing and pottery in her early years, she decided to make music her career and learned to play the trumpet. After her interest initially concentrated on performing in brass bands and big bands and she was also involved in recording film music and commercial jingles , she studied at the Victoria College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne after graduating from school and received various scholarships the subject classical trumpet and graduated with distinction in 1976. In the same year she was the winner of the "Instrumentalist and Vocalist Solo Competition" of the State of Victoria, after having received the "John Gaitskell Memorial Mensa Award for highest academic and performance achievement" from Mensa International the year before . Freeman then moved to the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with a grant from the Winston Churchill Fellowship to Edward H. Tarr , where she devoted herself to intensive studies of the baroque trumpet .

Numerous arrangements and appearances followed both as a soloist and with renowned symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles, including with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Zurich , the Winterthur City Orchestra , the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra .

She owes some of her greatest successes to her performances of works for baroque trumpet, with which she is currently one of the best performers on this instrument. Numerous appearances with various baroque ensembles, including the Consortium Musicae (Holland), the L'Orfeo Barockorchester , L'arpa festante Munich and the Bell'arte Salzburg testify to her skills. In addition, there are frequent assignments as a leader and conductor of professional orchestras, baroque ensembles, brass ensembles and brass bands. Another focus for them is to bring amateur ensembles, youth ensembles and music groups to a high standard.

In addition, she was given a teaching position at the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne, at the Canberra Institute of the Arts at the University of Canberra and at the Winterthur Conservatory, today's Zurich University of the Arts , and at the Detmold University of Music for six months a visiting professorship. In 1998 Anna Freeman accepted a call to the Cologne University of Music and Dance , where she has been professor for trumpet and wind chamber music in the Aachen department since then. Here she teaches modern and historical trumpet, pedagogical didactics as well as chamber music for wind instruments and chamber music didactics for bachelor's and master's degrees. In addition, she regularly gives lectures and lectures at renowned specialist academies and regularly offers master classes .

Anna Freeman can be heard on many CD recordings and has edited a number of specialist publications herself, all of which have been published by the Spaeth / Schmid music publisher.

Web links

• annafreeman.de - Official artist website
• Vita on the website of the HfMT Cologne
• Biography with Markus Leuchter

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography on Anna Freeman's homepage, accessed April 12, 2019
2. ↑ Publications Anna Freeman (PDF; 1.1 MB)