Performances

Dr. Freund is an experienced recitalist, and can provide a program for your concert series or event. She has given many recitals throughout the midwest, including at Oberlin College, Northwestern University, and Augustana College. Most programs range from thirty minutes to two hours, and can be formal or casual. Recitals can have a unifying theme, such as music and nature. Programs can feature a single musical era exclusively, or display the breadth and diversity of the harp’s repertoire over time.

Educational Programs

“Meet the Harp” programs combine an informal harp concert with casual conversation, providing information on how a harp works, harp history, and harp techniques. Programs aim to debunk common harp myths, and promise to teach everyone something they didn’t know already. They offer all participants a chance to get up close with a harp and try their hand at playing a chord and a glissando, and close with a Q&A session. Dr. Freund's programs are suitable for all ages, and are particularly popular in K-12 music classes and at adult social group meetings.

Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky Performed by Erin Freund and Ben Melsky Arranged by Erin Freund Studio recording available on Erin Freund's album Orchestral Transcriptions through iTunes and Amazon Promenade No.1 "Gnomus" (The Gnome) Promenade No.2 "Il vecchio castello (The Old Castle) Promenade No.3 "Tuileries" No.4 Bydło (Cattle) Promenade No.5 "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" No.6 "Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle" Promenade No.7 "Limoges, le marché" (The Market) No.8 "Catacombæ" (The Catacombs) "Con mortuis in lingua mortua" (With the Dead in a Dead Language) No.9 "The Hut on Fowl's Legs" No.10 "The Great Gate of Kiev"

10 Italian songs for soprano and piano, transcribed for soprano and harp by Erin Freund Performed by Michelle Crouch and Erin Freund Gaetano Donizetti - Le crépuscule - Amore et morte Vincenzo Bellini - Il rimprovero - Malinconia Ninfa gentile - Vaga luna, che inargenti - Almen se non poss'io - Ma rendi pur contento - L'abbandono Francesco Paolo Tosti - Sogno - La Serenata

Movements: i. Berceuse ii. Meloida iii. Legenda iv. Valse caressante v. Serenata vi. Aria Performed by Susan Stone and Erin Freund, Augustana College Faculty Recital Piano part arranged for harp by Erin Freund

Performed by Janina Ehrlich and Erin Freund Augustana College Faculty Recital