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, Brown has appeared as conductor with orchestras in the United States, Europe, Central Asia 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 Göttinger Symphonie Orchester in Germany, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony of Chile, the Sibiu State Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania, the Macedonia National Symphony Orchestra, and the National Soloists Orchestra in Astana.

Brown has recorded for Naxos, Albany, and Opus One. 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. In 2016 she was made Professor of Creative Arts Excellence at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of the Dictionary for the Modern Conductor (Rowman & Littlefield).

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