Don Freund
“Exciting, amusing, disturbing, beautiful, and always fascinating”
Welcome to the website of Don Freund, world-renowned composer, lecturer, pianist, educator, conductor, and Professor of Composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Premiere recording of Don Freund’s Popping Bubbles: Four Poems of Emily Bobo, commissioned by Dominick DiOrio for NOTUS contemporary vocal ensemble. The work grew from Freund’s collaboration with poet Emily Bobo, whose texts inspired fresh approaches to the choral medium.
Autumnsongs Ballet
IU Ballet staged a stunning production of choreographer Christian Claessens’ Autumnsongs Ballet to Don Freund’s piano trio (instrumentalists onstage, but off camera — but it’s a glorious video!)
Soul Chaconne, with tsunami
IU NME showcased Freund’s ‘Soul Chaconne, with tsunami‘ during the premiere conducted by Freund himself.