Kenneth Freudigman, a native of Michigan, began playing the cello at the age of nine and after six years of study was accepted to attend the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts.  After graduating with honors in music performance he went on to receive a BM at the Eastman School of Music.  He began his orchestral and chamber music career while still in school when he won a position with the Rochester Philharmonic and, was a founding member of the Esterhazy Chamber Ensemble.  Mr. Freudigman later joined the New World Symphony in 1992 under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.  He has performed with the Rochester, Grand Rapids, Charleston and Virginia Symphony Orchestras as well as the Sarasota Opera.

His orchestral engagements have taken him to Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Carlo, Tel Aviv, Austria, Switzerland, and throughout Germany and North America.  Mr. Freudigman has performed chamber music with members of the Amadeus and Cleveland quartets, with the pianist Jean-eves Thibaudet, and was featured as a soloist with the World Youth and New World Symphony Orchestras.  He has recorded for Argo and Summit Records, and is featured with Renee Fleming and the New World Symphony Orchestra performing Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos on the BMG Classics label.

Mr. Freudigman presently is a member of the San Antonio Symphony.