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Erin Freeman
Resident Conductor

Erin Freeman serves in multiple capacities throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia and Washington, DC, and maintains a national, international, and online presence through guest conducting engagements. Freeman is Artistic Director of The City Choir of Washington and Wintergreen Music, Resident
Conductor of the Richmond Ballet, and Director of Choral Activities at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University. Richmond audiences know Freeman from her 15 years with the Richmond Symphony, as Associate Conductor of the Orchestra and Director of the Symphony Chorus. Guest conducting includes the Detroit Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Neglia Ballet, Orchestra Symphonique Bel’Arte, Portland Symphony Orchestra, South Carolina Philharmonic, Savannah Symphony and Philharmonic, Toledo Symphony, Charlottesville Symphony, Virginia Symphony, and Williamsburg Symphony. She has conducted at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Boston Symphony Hall, and La Madeleine in Paris, and in 2024 will conduct at Cadogan Hall in London and Vienna’s historic Musikverein. Freeman was named nominee (2021) and finalist (2019) for Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year, and has received accolades in Opera News, Cleveland Classical, and MusicWeb International, among others. Freeman holds degrees from Northwestern University, Boston University, and Peabody Conservatory.