Conductor Emily Freeman Brown (wife of Samuel Adler) will also join Salty Cricket for the Living Masters residency March 8 - 12! Emily will join Mr. Adler in masterclasses with local university students and working with our own GraceNotes students.

About Emily Freeman Brown:

Emily Freeman Brown is Music Director and Conductor of the Bowling Green Philharmonia and Opera Theater at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

The first woman to receive a doctorate in orchestral conducting at the Eastman School of Music, Ms. Brown has appeared as conductor with orchestras in the United States, Europe, Central Asia and South America including the Rochester Philharmonic, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Syracuse and Toledo Symphonies, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Eastman Virtuosi, the Skaneateles Music Festival, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester in Germany, ​​the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony of Chile and the Bartók Ensemble, both in Santiago, the Sibiu State Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania, the Macedonia National Symphony Orchestra, National Soloists Orchestra in Astana, the Conservatory Symphony Orchestra of Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the American Festival of the Arts (Houston), Interlochen and Chatauqua summer music institutes and the all-state orchestras in Iowa, Ohio, Missouri, Washington and Minnesota. In 2007 she had a ten-day residency at the School of Music at the University of North Texas, conducting the School’s Symphony Orchestra and leading classes in orchestral conducting.

​Ms. Brown has recorded for Naxos Records, and Albany Records (with the Bowling Green Philharmonia) in addition to Opus One Records. She served as Associate Conductor of the Eastman Philharmonia and Conductor for the Eastman Opera Theater and was a winner of the internationally known Affiliate Artists’ Conductor’s Program.

A published author, articles have appeared in the BACH journal and the Journal of the Conductors Guild. She served as President of the Conductors Guild, Inc. from 2003 to 2005.
Ms. Brown studied conducting and cello at the Royal College of Music in London, England where she was twice winner of the Sir Adrian Boult Conducting Prize. Her major teachers have included Leonard Slatkin, Herbert Blomstedt, Franco Ferrara, David Effron and James Dixon.