Emily Freudigman is Co-Founder of Camerata San Antonio. Emily holds degrees in viola performance from Southern Methodist University, the Peabody Conservatory, and the University of Michigan and was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Aspen Music Festival and School. She has studied chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Muir, Concord and Tokyo String Quartets, and she has performed with the Grand Rapids, Maryland, Fort Worth and Boston Symphony Orchestras. Emily was the Assistant Principal Viola of the San Antonio Symphony from 2002 to 2019.

She maintains an active viola studio in San Antonio – her students accomplishments include performing in the Texas All-State orchestras (multiple principals), National Youth Orchestra and NYO2, reaching the finals of the American Viola Society’s junior and senior competitions, and attending prestigious summer music festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Interlochen Center for the Arts. Her students have gone on to study viola at the Cleveland Institute of Music, University of Texas, and Northwestern University.

Emily can be heard on Nature’s Tapestry, Imperial Russia, Soviet Russia and Visions & Reflections this season.