The Rev. Norm Freeman
 
 

  The Reverend Norm Freeman has earned Bachelors and Masters of Music Degrees from The Juilliard School. Norm's musical career includes performances with The New York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera, Barbra Streisand's 1994 Concert Tour, Rick Wakeman, The Moody Blues, Lionel Richie, Barry White, Rosemary Clooney, and The Jesse Norman/Kathleen Battle- Spirituals Concert.

Norm is a three time Grammy nominee and a Grammy Award winning percussionist on The New York Philharmonic recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 In D Minor. Since entering the General Theological Seminary in 1994, receiving pastoral training at Bellevue Hospital in NYC, and being ordained an Episcopal Priest in 1997, Norm has performed for The New York Pops, the MTV Music Video Awards Broadcast 9/9/99, Saturday Night Live with Pavarotti and Vanessa Williams, Metallica, numerous Broadway Shows, the New York premiere of Paul McCartney's Standing Stone with The Orchestra of St. Luke's, and Jesse Norman's Christmas CD, In the Spirit.

Before moving to California Norm was Percussion Department Chair at The Mannes College of Music - a division of The New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Norm moved to Santa Barbara with his family to become Episcopal Chaplain for the University of California at Santa Barbara and Vicar of The Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Isla Vista. In 1999 the Jazz Vespers services that Norm brought to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Greenwich, CT inspired a full page story in the Sunday edition of The New York Times entitled, Where Music and the Ministry Merge.