Anna Freeman


Anna Freeman is a trumpet player and Professor of Trumpet and Brass Chamber Music at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Germany. She was a soloist with Australian symphony orchestras and performed with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Early life

Freeman was born in 1954 in Drouin, Victoria, Australia, and studied at Victorian College of the Arts, earning a Diploma of Performing Arts in 1976. She became a lecturer at Canberra Institute of the Arts and the Victorian College of the Arts. She travelled to Europe and was Guest Principal Trumpet with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
In 1999, she became Professor of Trumpet and Head of Brass at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Aachen, Germany. She has also taught at Switzerland's Musikhochschule Winterthur in Zurich. She released CDs and published her trumpet method in a book called Beyond Brass Basics, A Guide to Common Sense Brass Playing. She performs concerts and recitals and records around the world including Europe, USA, New Zealand, Japan, and Australia.

Discography

"Baroque Trumpet and Strings"

Supported by some of Australia's finest baroque string and keyboard players, Freeman created a musically and historically valuable CD. Performers include the following: