Emily Bosenius is a recipient of a Victor Dahdaleh Foundation CCSF Scholarship. She is currently completing the final year of a MA in Violin at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is focusing on technique and the score as well as the audience’s perspective on performance. While completing her degree Emily has performed on a 1794 Giovanni Battista Ceruti violin and has held Principal positions in the Symphony and Opera Orchestras.
Born in Edmonton, Emily spent her childhood in Mississauga and completed an undergraduate degree in Music at the University of Toronto. While studying for her BMus (Hons) in Violin Performance, with Jonathan Crow, Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Emily won all major violin prizes including the Concerto Competition, the Felix Galimir Chamber Award and the Gerhard Kander Graduating Award for Violin. She held the position of Principal and Concertmaster in the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra and lead the Chamber and Opera Orchestras as well.
Praised for her ability to combine technical mastery of the violin with an innate sense of musical style and a commitment to historically accurate performance practices and techniques, Emily has performed in prestigious Canadian venues such as Roy Thomson Hall, La Maison Symphonique de Montréal and the National Arts Center and has toured internationally in the US, Germany and Scotland. She is anticipating her return to Canada for solo orchestral engagements and competitions, and to share what she has learned in the UK.
Emily was awarded the Victor Dahdaleh Foundation Scholarship 2022 – 2023
