Biography
Elizabeth Freimuth ’98, Shepherd School of Music alumna and principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will join the Shepherd School of Music faculty as professor of horn in the fall of 2025. Freimuth takes on the role after serving in a guest teaching artist capacity during the 2024-25 academic year.
Her chair with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is endowed by the late Charles and Mary Yeiser. Before joining the CSO in 2006, Elizabeth was principal horn of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra (2005-2006), principal horn of the Kansas City Symphony (2000-2005) and assistant principal/ utility horn of the Colorado Symphony (1998-2000).
Elizabeth has performed as the featured soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Butler County Symphony (PA), Johnson City Symphony Orchestra (TN), Overland Park Symphony (KS) and the Lakewood Symphony (CO). She has also performed as a guest principal horn with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, KBS Symphony (Korea), St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Saint Louis Symphony. She has been a Featured Artist at International Horn Symposiums at Ball State University 2018 and Memphis 2013 and a featured artist at the International Women’s Brass Conference, University of Northern Kentucky 2014.
Elizabeth Freimuth has been an Adjunct instructor at Cincinnati, CCM since 2011. From 2002-2005, she taught as the Horn Teacher at the University of Missouri in Kansas City Conservatory of Music. She has given numerous master classes and has done guest teaching at The New World Symphony in Miami, FL, Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, The Eastman School of Music, Rice University, The Beijing Conservatory in China, The University of Evansville, San Francisco Conservatory, Carnegie Mellon University, Dayton University, West Virginia University, Ohio State University, University of Northern Colorado, and the University of Northern Iowa and Interlochen School of the Arts. In 2011, she was the distinguished featured artist and clinician at Blast of Brass, a summer brass intensive for students in Dallas, TX.
During the summer, Elizabeth plays at the Sun Valley Music Festival. For many summers since 2015, she has been a Principal Horn and teaching faculty member at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. Since 2019, she has co-hosted an annual summer Horn Intensive at the Eastman School of Music for high school and pre-professional students.
In 2022, Elizabeth was invited to serve on the Board of Directors for the International Horn Competition of America and holds the position of Co-Director.
Elizabeth is a graduate and recipient of the coveted Performer's Certificate of the Eastman School of Music (BM Horn Performance and BM Instrumental Music Education). She was a student of Verne Reynolds and W. Peter Kurau. She is also a graduate of Rice University Shepherd School of Music (MM).
