Equally at home in the orchestral, choral and opera worlds, conductor Erin R. Freeman serves as Music Director of the Richmond Philharmonic. She is also as Resident Conductor of the esteemed Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where this year she conducted the Opera Department's main stage production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. In addition, Ms. Freeman is Director of Orchestras at the critically acclaimed Baltimore School for the Arts, recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the top five public arts high schools in the country and has delivered the pre-concert lectures for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the National Philharmonic.

From 1999 to 2001, Ms. Freeman served as Music Director of Collegium Vocale, a competitively auditioned choral ensemble located at Emory University in her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. With this group, the oldest of its kind in Atlanta, she led the ensemble in recording a 2-CD collection including Brahms' Nänie and Alto Rhapsody as well as Haydn's "Lord Nelson" Mass. As guest conductor of the Savannah Symphony Orchestra from 1997 to 2001, Ms. Freeman conducted outreach concerts, young people's concerts, and joint choral-orchestral performances.

At the age of seventeen, Ms. Freeman was accepted as the youngest member of the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, under the direction of the late Robert Shaw, and she has continued that association ever since, singing with the Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus and the Robert Shaw Memorial Singers. With a voice that the Boston Globe called "Virginal of Timbre, Pure of Pitch," Ms. Freeman has performed solos under the batons of Robert Shaw, James Conlon, and Ann Howard Jones, as well roles such as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Mlle. Silberklang in The Impresario, and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas.

Winner of numerous awards, including Peabody's Baltimore Music Club Prize in Performance and the Women's Philharmonic conducting scholarship, Ms. Freeman received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Northwestern University, a Masters degree in Conducting from the Boston University School for the Arts, and is currently completing a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar at the Peabody Conservatory. Previously she studied with Robert Shaw, Helmut Rilling, and Murry Sidlin.