Paul Freeman (conductor)

Paul Douglas Freeman ( born January 2, 1936 in Richmond / Virginia ) is an American conductor.

Freeman had clarinet and cello lessons and studied at Virginia State University and the Eastman School of Music. A Fulbright Scholarship enabled him to perfect his education at the Academy of Music at Ewald Lindemann. He began his musical career as a conductor at the Opera Theater of Rochester ( 1961-66 ) and then headed until 1968, the San Francisco Community Music Center.

He conducted the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and was from 1970 to 1979 Composer in Residence of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. From 1979 to 1989 he headed the Canadian Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta also from 1987, which he co-founded is. Since 1996 he is also music director of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague.

As a guest conductor Freeman joined with more than 100 orchestras in more than thirty countries. He played over 200 CDs, including with the Chicago Sinfonietta, the three-piece African Heritage Symphonic Series with compositions by Samuel Coleridge- Taylor, Fela Sowande, William Grant Still, Ulysses Kay, George Walker, Roque Cordero, Adolphus Hailstork, Hale Smith, Michael Abels, David Baker, William Banfield and Coleridge -Taylor Perkinson.

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