Don Freund was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Duquesne University, and earned his graduate degrees at the Eastman School of Music. His composition teachers were Joseph Willcox Jenkins, Darius Milhaud, Charles Jones, Wayne Barlow, Warren Benson, and Samuel Adler. As founder and coordinator of the University of Memphis' New Music Festival, he programmed close to 1,000 new American works, and has been conductor or pianist in the performance of some 200 new pieces, usually in collaboration with the composer.

Freund has composed over 80 performed works, ranging from solo, chamber, and orchestral music to pieces involving live performance with electronic instruments, music for dance, and large theatre works. He is also active as a pianist, conductor, and lecturer, and is on the Music Faculty at Indiana University.

He has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, commissions including the Tennessee Arts Commission with Opera Memphis, and prizes including the Washington International String Quartet Composition Competition, the International Society for Contemporary Music/League of Composers International Piano Music Competition, the AGO/ECS Publishing Award in Choral Composition, the Hanson Prize, the McCurdy Award, the Aspen Prize, 14 ASCAP Awards, and a Macgeorge Fellowship for the University of Melbourne, Australia. In 1992 he was appointed Professor of Composition at Indiana University, where he recently performed Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, Book I, in recital.

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7 June 2004