Anna Freeman

Anna Freeman is a virtuoso trumpet player and Professor of Trumpet and Brass Chamber Music at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Germany. She has been a soloist with Australian symphony orchestras and performed with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.[1]

Born in 1954 in Drouin, Victoria, Australia, she studied at Victorian College of the Arts (now part of the University of Melbourne), gaining a Diploma of Performing Arts in 1976.[2] She became a Lecturer at Canberra Institute of the Arts (now part of Australian National University) and at the Victorian College of the Arts. She travelled to Europe (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland) and was Guest Principal Trumpet with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.

Since 1999 she has been Professor of Trumpet and Head of Brass at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Aachen, Germany and lectures at Switzerland's Musikhochschule Winterthur in Zurich. She has released several CDs and published her trumpet method in a book called Beyond Brass Basics, a guide to common sense brass playing (Spaeth/Schmid Verlag). She performs concerts and recitals and records in countries around the world including Europe, USA, New Zealand, Japan and Australia.[3]

Discography

With Uri Caine

References

  1. ↑ "Plunkett Paul - Trumpet". Guild Music. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Career". annafreeman.de. Anna Freeman. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Anna Freeman". Move Records. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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