Emily Freeman Brown is Music Director and Conductor of the Bowling Green Philharmonia and Opera Theater at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. The first woman to receive a doctorate in orchestral conducting at the Eastman School of Music, she was the Music Director of the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 2000. She has been a frequent guest conductor for the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Brown has appeared as conductor with orchestras in the United States, Europe and South America including the Rochester Philharmonic, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Syracuse and Toledo Symphonies, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Eastman Virtuosi, the Skaneateles Music Festival, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony of Chile and the Bartók Ensemble, both in Santiago, the Sibiu State Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania, the Macedonia National Symphony Orchestra and the American Festival of the Arts (Houston), Interlochen and Chatauqua summer music institutes and the all-state orchestras in Ohio, Missouri, Washington and Minnesota. Ms. Brown has recorded for Albany Records (with the Bowling Green Philharmonia) and Opus One Records. She served as Associate Conductor of the Eastman Philharmonia and Conductor for the Eastman Opera Theater and was a winner of the internationally known Affiliate Artists’ Conductor’s Program.

A published author, articles have appeared in the BACH journal and the Journal of the Conductors Guild. She also serves as President of the Conductors Guild, Inc.

Ms. Brown studied conducting and cello at the Royal College of Music in London, England where she was twice winner of the Sir Adrian Boult Conducting Prize. Her major teachers have included Leonard Slatkin, Herbert Blomstedt, Franco Ferrara, and David Effron.