Featured on CBC Music’s 2023 Classical “30 under 30” list, Canadian violinist Emily Bosenius completed her Master of Arts at London’s Royal Academy of Music (Dist, DipRAM), in the classes of violinists Michael Foyle and Maureen Smith and studied Baroque Violin with Pavlo Beznosiuk. At the Academy, Emily worked with Conductors Semyon Bychkov, John Wilson, Ludovic Morlot and Sir Mark Elder and was a member of the Academy’s Sainsbury Soloists ensemble. She recorded for Linn Records with the Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra, held principal positions in all Orchestras and performed chamber music with Lawrence Power, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Alexander Hülshoff and Rainer Honeck. Emily has been invited to perform at the Academy’s Summer Piano Festival and was Commended in the 2022 String and Piano Duo Prize.
Emily enjoys a varied freelance and teaching career, working with the Benedetti Foundation as an Instrumental Ambassador since 2023. She is a member of the Aurora Orchestra extras list, as well as a duo recitalist in numerous venues in and outside of London. Festival appearances include the Aldeburgh Festival, Aspen Music Festival and School as a Dorothy Richard Starling Fellow, co-leading the Festival Academy Budapest Orchestra, Domaine Forget International Festival, Sion Tibor Varga Music Academy and VERÃO CLÁSSICO Academy. She has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Berlin Konzerthaus, Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, the Conservatory Royal de Bruxelles, at Gloucester Cathedral and at Apsley House for Princess Antonia of Prussia. Emily has toured Germany, Scotland and Canada with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with the Koffler Chamber Orchestra, the Oakville Chamber Orchestra, the Guelph Symphony Orchestra and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Emily completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, studying with the Toronto Symphony’s Concertmaster, Jonathan Crow. In addition to winning both the Faculty of Music’s Concerto Competition and Felix Galimir Chamber Music Award, Emily also received the Gerhard Kander Violin Award and the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto Centennial Scholarship. Emily has received additional mentorship from violinists Boris Brovstyn, James Ehnes, Clara-Jumi Kang, Tasmin Little, Mihaela Martin and Pavel Vernikov.
She is generously supported by Help Musicians UK, George Egerton Music Fund, the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund and the Maple Leaf Trust. Emily is grateful to perform on a violin by Andrea Gatto / Cappa (c. 1660, Turin) on loan from the Harrison-Frank Family Foundation.