Hailed by the press as engaging, elegant, and entertaining, Erin Freeman is the Associate Conductor and James Erb Choral Chair of the Richmond Symphony.  Her responsibilities include conducing subscription concerts, leading the Genworth Financial Symphony Pops and Union First Market Bank Lollipops Series, envisioning the artistic direction for the Symphony's education initiatives including its four youth orchestras, and preparing the 130-voice Richmond Symphony Chorus.  Guest conducting engagements include the South Carolina Philharmonic, Savannah Symphony, and Virginia All-State Orchestra.    

At the age of seventeen, Dr. Freeman was accepted as the youngest member of the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, under the direction of the late Robert Shaw, and continued that association 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,” Dr. Freeman has performed as concert soloist under the batons of Mr. Shaw, James Conlon, and Ann Howar d Jones, and on the opera stage as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Mlle. Silberklang in The Impresario and Belinda inDido and Aeneas.

Winner of numerous awards, including the Peabody’s Baltimore Music Club Prize in Performance and the Women’s Philharmonic Conducting Scholarship, Dr. Freeman received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Northwestern University, a Master’s degree in Conducting from the Boston University School for the Arts, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar at the Peabody Conservatory. Previously, she studied and performed in master classes with Robert Shaw, Helmut Rilling, Robert Spano, Jonathan Carney and Murry Sidlin.    

Erin Freeman lives with her husband Drew in the Forest Hill area of  Richmond, where they enjoy trail running and biking.  She holds a black belt in taekwondo, is an avid amateur cook, and loves fiction