Faculty and Staff
Christine Freeman MME
Associate Music Director & Senior Vocal Coach, Kansas City; Fellow, Institute for Healthy Singing
Kansas City
William Baker Festival Singers
Christine Freeman was appointed Associate Music Director of Kansas City ensembles and Senior Vocal Coach for the William Baker Choral Foundation in August 2011. A native of Topeka, Kansas, she holds a Bachelor of Music Education, emphasis Voice, and a Master of Music in Choral Pedagogy from the University of Kansas in Lawrence. She is a Fellow of the Institute for Healthy Singing & Voice Research.
She was appointed to membership in the William Baker Festival Singers in 2006 and served as Student Intern for the Choral Foundation in the 2007–2008 season, conducting Foundation ensembles in Kansas City, Atlanta, and at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston. She has conducted the Festival Singers and the Summer Singers of Kansas City, along with members of the Kansas City Symphony, in performances of Vivaldi’s Beatus Vir, Haydn’s Te Deum, and Mozart’s Regina Coeli. She appears as conductor on two Festival Singers recordings: A Festival for Christmas and Promised Land.
Ms. Freeman has been a clinician for honor choirs in Kansas and Missouri. She teaches middle school choral music in the Blue Valley School District and previously taught elementary and middle school music for eight years in the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas. She was named runner-up for the Kansas Choral Directors Association Outstanding Young Choral Director Award and has served as KCDA Repertoire and Standards Chair for Children’s Choirs, organizing the Statewide Treble Honor Choir. She makes her home in Overland Park, Kansas.