EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Dr. William Freeman, Dean
Dr. William Freeman
Dr. William Paul Freeman is a Las Vegas-based nonprofit executive, organizational leader, organist, conductor, church musician, and music educator whose work spans executive management, operations, finance, workforce leadership, governance, facilities, communications, and institutional performance. He has served as Dean of the Southern Nevada Chapter of the American Guild of Organists since September 2022, following service as Sub-Dean from 2018 to 2022 and earlier chapter board positions beginning in 2016.
Freeman serves as Executive Director and Organist of Guardian Angel Cathedral. Reporting directly to the Cathedral Rector, the Most Reverend Gregory W. Gordon, Auxiliary Bishop of Las Vegas, Freeman serves in a chief-of-staff capacity with responsibility for organizational operations, finance, human resources, facilities, communications, liturgy, and music. He oversees a $1.5 million operating budget and leads 18 employees and approximately 110 volunteers. His executive responsibilities include organizational planning, financial management, workforce leadership, facilities oversight, communications, and institutional execution. He concurrently serves as Director of Sacred Music and Liturgy at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, where he has served since 2014.
His musical leadership has included the 2021 episcopal ordination of Bishop Gordon and the 2023 Mass of Canonical Establishment of the Archdiocese of Las Vegas, both broadcast by EWTN. He also served as organist for the September 2018 first-anniversary memorial service commemorating the October 1 Las Vegas shooting, carried by CNN and Fox News.
Before moving into full-time nonprofit and church administration, Freeman served as a music educator with the Clark County School District. As Director of Guitar Studies at Mojave High School, he increased program enrollment by 60 percent and contributed to district curriculum-alignment initiatives. He was an initial nominee for the GRAMMY Music Educator Award in February 2020.
Freeman studied organ with Roland E. Martin and has resumed formal organ study with Lukas Hassler. As a member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, he performed at Kleinhans Music Hall and the Chautauqua Institution, including a performance of Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem broadcast on NPR. He received the Monsignor Henry S. Kawalec Memorial Organ Scholarship in 2011.
Freeman holds a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from Saint Leo University, a Master of Business Administration from Western Governors University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Canisius College. He also holds a Certificate of Catholic Theology in Liturgy, awarded through the University of Notre Dame STEP Program.