Just days after picking up the instrument she was playing in front of a large audience of all her favorite stuffed animals, playing such hits as “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “Mary Had A Little Lamb”. But this small time fame wasn’t enough for her, soon she picked up singing and started to serenade any and everyone who would listen. After a three-week long performance in her own room, this tim
e with famous critics there such as Bunny, Big Bear and Ava (her invisible best friend), her mother started to understand her potential and enrolled her into the Schiel School for Primary Arts Enrichment at the age of 5. There, she started to experiment with different arts. After a disheartening failure as a sculptor, she decided to refocus on music and picked up the violin. About a year after picking up the instrument she started to make appearances at her local school recitals, reprising “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” for the parents of her fellow students. After graduating from 3rd grade, she continued her studies at the world-famous School for Creative and Performing Arts. There she rubbed shoulders with the would-be-famous-if-they-were-10-years-older crowd. She started to perform in the small ensemble called Orchestra 1. After a few years she left the ensemble and moved on to the more prestigious Orchestra 2. At the age 11, Emily had yet another artistic breakdown, she took a sabbatical from traditional classical lessons. George, in the Clifton neighborhood of Cincinnati to study at the O’Reilly School for Irish Music. There she learned to play a mean jig. But after a year, she found herself missing the ways of classical lessons, and after a short search found herself studying under and great teacher from Eastern Europe. Things started to take a turn for the worst, he rode her heard, and soon she became disheartened. At 13, Emily almost gave up the violin completely to pursue a career as a middle-school actress. But that summer she had a breakthrough, she returned to school and quickly rose from the 2nd violin section up to the 1st violin section and by 14 she was playing second chair in the top orchestra, second only to a child prodigy. By 17, Emily decided to take yet another turn in her career. She started to focus more on her academics and enrolled on an online highschool to complete her diploma while studying at the local university. While at the university enrolled in the Non-Major Orchestra where she performed in lobbies and other such venues. After yet another small breakdown, Emily traveled to the great Pacific Northwestern city of Seattle where she started to play with local musicians at a few open mics, there her career started to take off. She played small venues and even started to dabble in composition. After two years she started to take to the streets more and more, dedicating her time to spreading her neo-classical improvisations. It was during this time that she started to separate herself from the realm of classical music and dedicated more and more time to genres such as jazz and blues, even dabbling with some bluegrass, but yet again, she discovered fiddle just wasn’t for her. In April of 2011, Emily made the great discovery that maybe she would like to play music full-time. It was then that she decided to take to the road and spread her music across the land. Emily is going to make a very slow pilgrimage to the Holy City of New York. She hopes to make a name in the music community that and try to break into the studio world as a session musician. She hasn’t quite decided what the end result of her search will be, but she hopes to improve on her composition skills and find other classical instrumentalists to play with, and possibly start composing with, creating a Neo-Classical group, but who knows what will come. She’s just excited to finally follow her dream, telling wordless tales through her vibrating violin strings. Looping/Improvisational Violinist.
