About

American violinist Emily Vold is an active and versatile performer of chamber and orchestral music. As a chamber musician, Emily has appeared with the Mannes American Composers Ensemble in the ensemble's Alice Tully Hall debut. Additionally, she has collaborated with the Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo in a concert that has been broadcast on WWFM, and was a member of Trio des Waldes, a horn trio that performed throughout NYC and on the Bucks County (PA) Performing Arts concert series.

As an orchestral violinist, she regularly performs as concertmaster of LoftOpera, principal second violin of the Chappaqua Orchestra, and section violinist with the Symphony of Westchester. Previously, Emily served as concertmaster for Noli me Tangere the Opera in two performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and of the Mannes Orchestra and the Columbus State University Philharmonic. She was an orchestral fellow with the National Repertory Orchestra, and has attended the Bowdoin International and Madeline Island Music Festivals.

Emily maintains a private teaching studio encompassing the NYC and Long Island areas. In the summers of 2013-2015, she was a Junior Faculty member at the Minnesota-based Stringwood Chamber Music Camp. Emily received her bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Columbus State University, where she was named the Presser Scholar, and received her master's from Mannes College of Music. Currently, Emily is pursuing a DMA in Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her major teachers include Daniel Phillips, Lewis Kaplan, Muneko Otani, and Sergiu Schwartz.

Music

SOLO VIOLIN
J.S. Bach - Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001-1006
Georg Philipp Telemann - 12 Fantasias for Violin senza basso
Fritz Kreisler - Recitative and Scherzo
Augusta Read Thomas - Incantation
Augusta Read Thomas - Rush
Augusta Read Thomas - Dreamcatcher
Chen Yi - Memory

STRING QUARTETS
Joseph Haydn - All Op. 76 and Op. 77 string quartets
Ludwig van Beethoven - All Op. 18, Op. 59 no. 3, Op. 127 string quartets
Maurice Ravel - String Quartet
Felix Mendelssohn - Op. 12, Op. 13, Op. 44 No. 1 string quartets
...and many more!

Audio