Dr. Wendy Freeland

Distinguished Professor of Music
Mason Hall 205
(256) 282-5535
wfreeland@jsu.edu 

Dr. Wendy Freeland is a Distinguished Professor of Music at Jacksonville State University.  She completed her graduate degrees in piano performance at the University of South Carolina under John Kenneth Adams.  Her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance is from Florida Atlantic University where she studied with Heather Coltman and Judith Burganger. 

She enjoys performing as soloist and collaborative artist.  In recent years she has performed with soprano Dr. Shellie Beeman, mezzo-soprano Stina Öhman, and fellow pianists Melody Ng and Nancy Elton.  She has performed at universities across the country, including the American Matthay Association for Piano Festival, the Alabama Music Teachers State Conference, the Alabama Music Educators State Conference, the National Flute Convention, the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia, and in Sweden, Italy and Korea. 

Dr. Freeland’s research in recent years yielded the presentations Remembering John Kenneth Adams: Lessons in Music and Life, and Using Imagination in “Promenades for Piano” by Francis Poulenc.  At her university she has been the recipient of the "Faculty Research Award" several times, and was honored to receive the Cleo and Carla Thomas Outstanding Education/Service Award in 2022.  She organizes the Foothills Piano Festival, directs the JSU Music Academy, and is a Past President of the Alabama Music Teachers Association.  She currently serves as President for the American Matthay Association for Piano. She holds memberships in Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Kappa Lambda, The American Matthay Association for Piano, the Music Teachers National Association, the World Piano Teachers Association, and is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music.