Conductor Paul Freeman pursued an active career on both sides of the Atlantic. He received several awards and appeared as guest conductor with over 100 orchestras around the globe, also recording with many of them. Freeman was the music director of the Chicago Sinfonietta, which he founded in 1987. In 1996 he was appointed music director and chief conductor of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague, and held other positions as well. One of America's most-recorded conductors, Freeman has a discography of over 200 releases. These include a series for Columbia tracing the accomplishments of black symphonic composers and another entitled Aspects of Broadway. Freeman made a traversal of the complete piano concertos of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, all with pianist Derek Han. Freeman retired in 2011, donating his collection of scores and other materials to the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago. ~ Rovi Staff, Rovi