Yvonne Freckmann is a composer, performer and avid promoter of new music. She spent the summer of 2012 at the Brevard Music Center studying with Robert Aldridge and David Dzubay. Currently, she is pursuing a composition master's degree at the University of Louisville as a Bomhard Fellow, studying with Drs. Marc Satterwhite (composition) and Krzysztof Wolek and Allison Ogden (computer music). She earned her B.M. in Piano Performance and Composition from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas in 2010, where her principal teachers were Dr. Carolyn True (piano), and Dr. Timothy Kramer (composition). She has participated in festivals such as Electronic Music Midwest (2012), the 10th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music in San Francisco (2012), the 2011 Electrogals Festival: Gals Gone Wired, the 2008 SCI Student National Conference, and 2009 NYCEMF. Upcoming performances include New Music Festival at the University of Louisville, and New Voices @ Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Some of her recent collaboration includes working with the University of Louisville Symphony Orchestra, as well as the 2nd Street Chamber Orchestra, which premiered her piece "To Breathe One's First" in April 2012. She premiered her "Nigerian Scam Cycle" for high voice and piano, with Deborah Mae Hill, soprano in Louisville's Comstock Hall in October 2011. She wrote a string quartet for a student ensemble as part of the Chamber Music Institute hosted by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in summer 2011. Freckmann attended the Czech-American Summer Music Institute (CASMI) in Prague with Ladislav Kubík in July 2009. She enthusiastically performs and promotes new music, and founded TUCHÉ (Trinity University Chamber Ensemble) in fall 2008. TUCHÉ formed a pit orchestra to perform incidental music she wrote for Trinity University main stage production of “Booth.”
Besides making music with her friends, Yvonne greatly enjoys swing dancing and cycling.
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