2024 – Guest Clinician for the Honors Drumline
Edward Freytag holds a B.S. in Music ED from the University of TN Chattanooga and a M.M. in Jazz PercussionPerformance from the University of TN Knoxville where he studied with iconic jazz educator, Jerry Coker, and drumset guru, Keith Brown. He has been Director of Bands at Cleveland HS and LaVergne HS in TN where his drumlines, bands, and jazz bands placed as top finishers in all events entered including two USBands National Championships. He has been Asst. Director of Bands at Whitworth-Buchanan MS and Eagleville School and has been on faculty at Lee University, Cumberland University, and the University of TN Chattanooga. He has performed with the Chattanooga and Knoxville Symphonies and served as percussion caption head for DCA Drum & Bugle Corps, Music City Legend, and is an intermittent consultant for DCA Corps, Southern Knights. He is an in-demand adjudicator and clinician in the areas of percussion and jazz both nationally and internationally and is an adjudicating member of ETPAA (East TN Performing Arts Assoc), CIPA (Connecting Individuals Through Performance Arts), and IMPA (InterMountain Percussion Assoc). He has often judged WGI and SCGC and has recently presented clinics/masterclasses at the Kansas PAS Day of Percussion, the Montana AA Percussion Festival, the Rutherford County Percussion Fest, the North Alabama and North Georgia Percussion Festivals, the drumline SUN CITY THROWDOWN in El Paso, TX, the Lee University Jazz Camp, the University of TN Knoxville, Austin Peay State University, the Sumner County Day of Drumset and Percussion, the MTSBOA (Middle TN School Band & Orchestra Assoc) Jazz Clinic, the West Kentucky Percussion Festival, the Oklahoma Band Directors Assoc Conference, Balko HS in Balko, OK, and the state Music Conferences for Maryland (MMEA), Texas (TxMEA), and Tennessee (TnMEA) w/ more scheduled in the coming months.
Mr. Freytag has toured extensively throughout the United States, Russia, Germany, England, Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands performing with the likes of… JAZZ – Randy Brecker, Eliane Elias, Steve Allen, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Morrow, Donald Brown, Jerry Coker, Keith Brown, Chris McDonald, Ron Miller, Bill Watrous, Terry Gibbs, Bud Brisbois, Steve Brewster, William Ellis, Alan Wyatt, Shawn Perkinson, Jim Williamson, Vinnie Ciesielski, Rich Ripani, Mark Douthit, Roy Agee, and Rusty Holloway. R&B / SOUL – Queen of Soul – Aretha Franklin, and Earl Lett.
COUNTRY – Dude Mowery (Arista Records), Marilyn Martin (Atlantic Records), James T. Horn (Curb Records), Philip Claypool (Curb Records), Ric Ferrell (Dreamworks Records), Mindy McCready (RCA Records), Thom Ellis (E3 Entertainment), Terry Radigan, Jack Daniel Hancock, and the legendary, Carl Perkins. SHOW – Liberace, and Chris McDonald. POP / ROCK – Kimber Cleveland, Dr. Hook, and VINNIE and THE HITMEN. He has done openings for the likes of Kenny Chesney, Ray Stevens, Joe Diffie, Eddie Money, Tracy Lawrence, Rick Trevino, Billy Dean, Shaver, Radney Foster, Lorrie Morgan, Restless Heart, Martina McBride, Eddie Arnold, and Leroy Parnell. He has worked in management, promotions, production, and artist relations in the Nashville music industry.
Mr. Freytag is the composer of the iconic percussion texts, THE RUDIMENTAL COOKBOOK, JUST DESSERTS, and the new DRUMMERS’ GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE. He is known for his use of jazz elements in his marching percussion arrangements and compositions. Mr. Freytag is the owner/CEO of BOD PRODUCTIONS MUSIC SERVICES at www.bodproductions.org. He is currently an endorser for Row-Loff Productions, KHS America, Mapex Drums, Majestic Percussion, Innovative Percussion, Sabian Cymbals, Gon-Bops, Remo Heads, Humes and Berg Cases and Bags, MonkDrums, Mason Audio Solutions, Music Chunks, Royer Labs Mics, and Hercules Stands. He is an active member of the Percussive Arts Society (PAS), Natl Assoc for Music Educators (NAfME),TN Music Educators Assoc (TnMEA), Middle TN School Band and Orchestra Assoc (MTSBOA), and TN Bandmasters Assoc (TBA).