Yvonne Freckmann

From the whistling windmills of the Dutch landscape to the buzzing insects of the South African savanna, Yvonne Freckmann translates the soundscape of life into her music. A multilingual musician who grew up playing the piano and clarinet, she found her voice by combining electroacoustic and freely tonal music into one, all while remaining rooted in the concert music tradition. Freckmann often draws great inspiration from other creatives, and collaborations across disciplines with visionary musicians, theatremakers, and visual artists have empowered her to further explore the possibilities of sound and create experiences that engage the mind. Her music has been performed in over a dozen U.S. states and several countries, among them the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic, Israel, and Malaysia, and she currently lives in Madrid, Spain. During her travels with a microphone in hand, Freckmann records material and meets other people who inspire compositions, as chronicled in the "UNDA Cellotrónica" album with cellist Clara Rivière, their debut album released in May 2020. The previous year Freckmann was commissioned by award-winning contemporary pioneer SOLI Chamber Ensemble to write "Nest," an extended chamber work for mixed quartet with a soundtrack of field recordings of her home state of Texas. Over the past few years, Freckmann has worked on projects with harpist and theatremaker Iris van der Ende ("The Voice of the Windmill" and "Under the Bridge"), Zvov Trio ("Zvov Sensory"), Thompson Street Opera Company, Musical Bridges Around the World, and the Composers Alliance San Antonio, to name a few. Among other major festivals, Freckmann has had works premiered and featured in Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Cultura Nova Festival, Audiosfera (Reina Sofia Museum Madrid), SEAMUS National Conference, and the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival. For her composition "Train" (2014), Freckmann was awarded the PatsyLu Prize from the International Alliance of Women in Music “Search for New Music” in 2015. To continue developing her craft, Freckmann has served as artist-in-residence in the Netherlands at the Werkplaats K atelier with her group Klanktheater (2017/2018), with the Kunstmeile Krems in Austria (June 2018), and attended the Sonic Mmabolela Field Recording Workshop in South Africa (2016). She has earned master’s degrees in music composition at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague as a Fulbright Scholar, the University of Louisville as a Bomhard Fellow, and a bachelor’s degree in music in piano performance and composition from Trinity University, all under the tutelage of brilliant teachers. For more information, please visit my website at: www.yvonnefreckmann.com For inquiries, please contact me through Consortio, yfreckmann [at] gmail [dot] com or the contact page of my website: https://yvonnefreckmann.com/contact

Yvonne's music, especially her vocal works, tends to be freely tonal, with singable, often catchy melodies and humorous moments. She adapts the musical vocabulary to tell stories of the human experience with sensitivity, and whatever the aim of the composition, she strives to make meaningful music for the performer and audience. With a master's degree focused on writing for the human voice under her belt, Yvonne has experience in text setting, especially in the art song, operetta, and novelty song idioms, and accompanying choirs as a pianist since she was a teenager.