Emily enjoys a vibrant and international career as an orchestra leader, soloist, chamber musician and teacher.

Recently appointed Leader of the Hallé Orchestra from the 2024/25 season (a 30% position), she combines this with guest leading orchestras elsewhere in the U.K. and internationally. Orchestras she has been invited to lead include the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra to name a few. She formerly held the position of Concertmaster with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and for two years as a student was Concertmaster of the European Union Youth Orchestra.

Emily has performed as a soloist in festivals and venues across the world. Memorable highlights include Arvo Pärt’s, ‘Fratres’ with conductor Vasily Petrenko at the Pärnu Festival in Estonia; Piazzolla’s, ‘Four Seasons’ at the Bergen International Festival; the Cuban premiere of Vaughan Williams’s, ‘Lark Ascending’; Szymanowski’s Concerto No.2 with the Ålesund Symphony Orchestra (Norway); Prokofiev’s 2nd Concerto with the Bristol Symphony Orchestra and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra. She has broadcast live as a soloist on British (BBC), Estonian, Romanian, Cuban, Norwegian (NRK) and Irish (RTÉ) radio stations.

Emily is passionate about directing larger chamber ensembles from the violin and founded ‘Thirteen North’ with Co-Artistic Director Catriona Price. As an ensemble they have a unique influence of both classical and folk music, formed of musicians who are performers, composers and improvisers in their own right. They are driven to bring classical music out of concert halls and into the heart of communities around Scotland.

As a director, other notable performances include leading an ensemble of young European and Cuban musicians for a live televised concert in Havana, directing a performance of Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante at the Gothenburg Konserthuset as both director and soloist and directing the strings of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra at the Trondheim Kammer Fest. As a chamber musician, Emily has also collaborated with notable artists and groups including Paul Lewis, Kian Soltani, Julian Rachlin, Lars Vogt and the Hebrides Ensemble.

Emily enjoys frequent invitations to collaborate with chamber orchestras, including the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Aurora Orchestra in London, the Scottish Ensemble and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, touring to inspiring venues across the world including Carnegie Hall (New York), Suntory Hall (Tokyo) and the Musikverein (Vienna).

Driven to share her wide ranging musical experiences, she has been appointed a Violin Professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London, and is a former teacher at St Mary’s specialist music school in Edinburgh. This coming year she will tutor the first violin sections of both the National Youth Orchestra of GB and the European Union Youth Orchestra.

In 2024, Emily was delighted to be made an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

In the academic year 2021-22, Emily completed a graduate certificate with the Global Leaders Program to expand her knowledge of organisation leadership and cultural changemaking - www.globalleadersprogram.com

Emily plays on a Ferdinand Gagliano violin kindly loaned to her through the Beare’s International Violin Society.