Freda was a music lecturer at the Froebel Institute in Grove House at Roehampton. When the SRP (Society of Recorder Players) decided to launch the Recorder in Education Summer Schools it was through her influence that lead the Society to hold them first at Templeton in Priory Road, Roehampton, one of the Institute’s halls of residence, and in due course at Grove House itself. Freda devoted her life to music, between the violin and the recorder. She was educated at Alleyn’s School in Dulwich, not far from her home in Herne Hill, and at the Royal College of Music where she later taught the violin and conducted the orchestra in the Junior Department.