ABOUT AUDREY

Born and raised in Russiaville, Indiana, Audrey Marie Freeman is a young avid musician and businesswoman. Starting her musical journey at the age of six, Audrey showed interest and love for music from such a young age. She started with piano lessons with Barbra Hobbs. She then promptly joined her local children’s choir a year later in Kokomo, Indiana, where she was under Laura Swartzendruber. Through these two experiences, she made music a huge part of her early childhood life. Eventually, she started playing the horn six years later at twelve at Western Middle School. This is where she began studying under Keith Whitford until she graduated from Western High School in 2017.

 

She was a part of many ensembles and chamber groups, including her school's Concert Band, Marching Band, Brass Choir, and Horn Quartet. She also received many honors during her high school career, including participation in IBA’s All-State Band her Junior and Senior year, ICDA’s All-State Honor Choir her entire high school career, ISO Side-By-Side in 2017, and the Howard County Morning Musicale Scholarship.

 

As a current Senior at Butler University, Audrey studies with Dr. Gail Lewis and is a part of the Butler Symphony Orchestra, directed by Richard Auldon Clark. Under his direction, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with the school of dance through many ballets, including Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty and Prokofiev’s Cinderella. She also has been a part of Butler University's Wind Ensemble, directed by Col. Michael Colburn. Another recent collaboration of Audrey’s was accompanying Butler Opera Theater’s Productions of Gian Carlo Menotti’s radio operas The Telephone and The Old Maid and the Thief in April of 2019.

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As a future professional, Audrey has been given many opportunities to teach young music students through the classes at Butler but has also shown an exceeding desire to search for opportunities outside. Most recently at Western's Middle School Summer Band Camp in 2018. Here she studied under assistant band director Dan Healton, the woodwind instructor. She assisted with the beginning clarinet and saxophone classes during the month of June.  In the Summer of 2019, Audrey was employed at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp to be a camp counselor for the high school girls division. Here she was in charge of a cabin and held daily camp activities for her campers.

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As a horn student, Audrey has had many opportunities to perform solo works from a wide variety of eras. She had recently finished her junior recital, and she is happy to feature herself as a soloist in the near future. Audrey is excited to be learning and perfecting her craft at Butler University, and she expects to graduate in the Fall of 2021.